Entrepreneurship and innovation on federal public management

The purpose of this article is to present three entrepreneurship actions in public organization, awarded by ENAP, the "Innovation in Federal Public Management prize. From the literature review and case study, the several types and models of innovation processes will be confronted in order to identify the highlighted difficulties and the solutions adopted in the scenarios awarded by the contest. Three innovative experiences in the INSS were selected, pointing the origin, characteristics, amplitude and the model of innovation processes in itself. Our theoretical framework of reference is structured in a way to profound our perception as well as to provide the conditions to compare studies and to bring to light the gaps, if existing. The research has been developed through the qualitative and exploratory methodology, and adopting a investigative strategy of the case study. The literature review had as goal the identification of what is available in books, articles, thesis and, also, experiences. The conclusion reached in this article is that, in spite of the alleged obstacles and limitations, the intrapreneurship is present in public organizations and it has been being adopted by management positions and by civil servants without any kind of commissioned function, as reported in one of the cases. The innovation in the public organizations, represented by the intrapreneurship of the experiences awarded by the contest confirms our theoretical framework that entrepreneurship actions generating innovation are present in public organizations, in all of its processes and means. The analysis of the cases still reveals that the intrapreneurship action can occur in the many levels and hierarchical segments of the organization. Besides, the endogenous factors (product of its internal processes) as well as the exogenous (products of external factors) are determinants in this process.