Innovation can be defined: “as the commercial or industrial application of something new, such as a new product or process, or a new type of organization, a new source of supply in the product market”. Schumpeter is considered as a pioneer on innovation studies. He started studying how the capitalist system was affected by market innovations and he describes a process where “the opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development [...] illustrate the same process of industrial mutation, that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one”. This was called a “creative destruction” process (Schumpeter, 1911).
Assinale a alternativa que melhor reproduz o pensamento de Schumpeter ao caracterizar o processo de inovação como aquele que:
