The Technological, Organizational and Services Innovation Laboratory (LabrInTOS), is coordinated by Professor Marcus Vinicius de A. Fonseca. Its main goal is to spread the culture of innovation, demonstrating its connection to the enhanced competitiveness of organizations, companies and institutions. Innovation is a key issue for companies and institutions. In this laboratory, professionals are encouraged test new ideas and learn to investigate complex issues of innovation in Environment 21, to identify and create opportunities and new markets.

The laboratory has four main lines of research: Innovation for Sustainability and Social Responsibility; Public Policies for Science, Technology and Innovation; Science, Technology and Innovation Management; and as of recently, Startups, Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital. The four shared main concerns are SCALE, ACTION SPHERE, EXTENSION and SPEED. The most exciting frontier - SPEED - is related to the pace of innovation, dynamic consolidation and accelerated innovation. Incorporating this new approach into the means and ways of designing business plans for startups hard techs is the objective of this line of research. In this sense, the RESIDENCE Program, which has been implemented by LabrInTOS, aims to consolidate the path between the idea and the market, training researchers and inducing new business based on the results and technologies generated in all of COPPE/UFRJ thirteen graduate programs.

Visit the LabrInTOS website.