Foresight, competitive intelligence and knowledge management as innovation management tools

The reflections in this article aim to contribute toward the conceptual improvement of innovation management practices, highlighting the need to enhance decision making processes and the effects of networking as key factors for the promotion of a company's innovation capabilities and competitiveness. The article discusses the connection between three particularly useful approaches for innovation management - Foresight, Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge Management, arguing that their simultaneous use can generate a chain of added knowledge value, thereby positively influencing the aforementioned decision making processes and networking effects.A reflexão apresentada neste artigo busca contribuir para o aperfeiçoamento conceitual da gestão da inovação, destacando a necessidade de incrementar os processos de tomada de decisão e os efeitos de networking, como chaves para a promoção da capacidade de inovar e da competitividade das empresas. O artigo discute a aproximação de três abordagens particularmente úteis à gestão da inovação - Foresight, Inteligência Competitiva e Gestão do Conhecimento - e busca iniciar o entendimento de como as sinergias entre eles podem estimular uma cadeia de agregação de valor em conhecimento e influenciar, positivamente, os processos de tomada de decisão e de networking mencionados.23123

Synthesis and characterization of new amino acyl-4-thiazolidones

A series of heterocyclic compounds with a 4-thiazolidone nucleus and amino acyl moiety were synthesized by protection reaction of thiosemicarbazide using the symmetrical anhydride (Boc)2O and cyclization with chloroacetic acid under mild conditions. Trifluoroacetic acid was used to obtain 4-thiazolidone and the alpha-amino acid condensation reactions were carried out using strategies for peptide synthesis. The characterization of this new class of compounds was performed using IR and ¹H-NMR spectroscopy