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Creative processes and their relationship with social innovation are the central theme of this study because they are differentiating factors for companies in the face of current social and economic change scenarios. In this context, the question imposed is: how do creative processes relate to social innovation actions in the three large companies surveyed? The objective of this investigation, then, is to analyze the relationships between the creative process and social innovation practices in three organizations, based on 2020 sustainability reports. bibliographical and documental analysis through reports of three large companies, in a qualitative theoretical research. The organizations correspond to three different sectors of the economy that, for the purposes of this study, were named as "Company 1 - Clothing Industry and Trade", "Company 2 - Pulp Industry" and "Company 3 - Financial Institution". they are classified as large companies because they have more than a thousand employees and all have one of their headquarters in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre/RS. Among the results, it was observed that, of the three companies surveyed, the company with the greatest tendency towards social innovation is also the one with the most factors that promote the development of practices to make people more creative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the years, information and communication technologies started to be inserted in schools, and with that, gamification emerged as a way to improve the teaching and learning of students, and there are already scientific productions that deal with the application of gamification in education. Therefore, this research aims to present a bibliometric analysis of scientific publications on gamification applied to education. Regarding the methodology, this study is classified as quantitative exploratory. A bibliometric analysis was carried out through a search in the Scopus database, and 210 publications were found between the years 2013 to 2019. The results show that the scientific productions aimed at the application of gamification in education are recent, since data were found from 2013. In addition, it was found that Spain was the country where there is a greater concentration of publications related to the subject under study. The use of the VOSviewer program identified keywords that correspond to the gamification application, showing that its use is necessary to verify if what is being analyzed involves the object of the research study. Thus, it is understood that the publications show that the studies focused on gamification, applied to education, have been growing, however these studies are recent, which shows that there is still much to understand about its application and how this methodology can improve quality teaching and learning of students in schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Motivated to achieve greater competitiveness through creativity and the gap in previous research, this study aims to identify factors internal to organizations that enable or inhibit the creativity of their employees. The work was conducted with the use of applied research in a business of Information Technology. In the view of the agents were able to identify the main enablers and inhibitors factors of creativity in the field of Information Technology. Companies in this segment can, with adaptations, develop a plan in order to maximize the enablers and minimizing the inhibitors factors of creativity in pursuit of competitive advantage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]