Lançamento do 3º volume da série de livros ‘Histórias do Design no Brasil’, que, como os volumes anteriores da série, é constituído por dez textos relativos às pesquisas desenvolvidas na disciplina ‘História Social do Design no Brasil’, do Programa de Pós-graduação da FAU/USP.

The discussion of innovation management and entrepreneurship has been gaining relevance over the years. At a global level, the United States and China are considered to be the countries that invest the most in innovation and, as a result, end up having an impact on the innovation agenda of other trading partner countries. In Europe, the countries belonging to the European Union aim to increase investment in innovation, but few of them have investments close to the desired level, which is 3 per cent of GDP (EUROSTAT, 2019). Studies carried out by Booz Allen Hamilton draw attention to the lack of correlation between levels of innovation funding and corporate performance (Booz Allen Hamilton, 2006). The need for innovation as a condition for competitive success, the growing movements for greater investment in innovation and the need to obtain better results from the investment made are all elements that make the discussion of innovation management and entrepreneurship in organisations essential. The innovation process, although well known, takes a long time and the results are rarely known (especially in the early stages of idea generation and research). Some of the resources required by this process, such as creativity, knowledge and techniques, are not very controllable, which makes it difficult to allocate funds for their development. These are some of the particularities that make the management of innovation and entrepreneurship a fundamental issue to be addressed within the framework of the proposal to create this laboratory, called LAGIE - Laboratory for the Management of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

A CNPq-certified research group, the Design and Anthropology Laboratory (LaDA) investigates the theoretical and methodological possibilities of combining the modes of knowledge production inherent to design and anthropology, both understood as social sciences. As part of the Research Network for Design Anthropology, an international network that brings together researchers in the field of design anthropology, LaDA is part of the emerging field of knowledge that is taking shape in the midst of the transdisciplinary space between the two areas, anthropology and design.

LABSEM is a multidisciplinary laboratory for studies, research, events and productions based on semiotics. It initially brings together four academic units from different centres at UERJ - in addition to the ESDI at the Centre for Technology and Sciences, the Institute of Letters, the Faculty of Teacher Training and the Faculty of Social Communication at the Centre for Education and Humanities - with a view to promoting technical-academic-scientific dialogue between these areas and their sub-areas.

O objetivo principal desta pesquisa é analisar como a aplicação de metodologias de Design, incluindo mas não se limitando ao Design Thinking, tem contribuído para a expansão do acesso à justiça no Brasil através dos laboratórios de inovação no Poder Judiciário. Como objetivos secundários, a pesquisa pretende mapear e registrar os estudos de três laboratórios de inovação no setor judiciário: o iJuSPLab, da Justiça Federal de São Paulo (fundado em 2017); o Laboratório de Inovação do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Ceará (estabelecido em 2020); e o Laboratório de Inovação INOVA do Ministério Público do Rio de Janeiro (criado em 2019). Apesar de o Ministério Público não ser um órgão do Poder Judiciário, sua análise é relevante devido à sua função na garantia de direitos e no acesso à justiça. A pesquisa visa refletir sobre o papel desses laboratórios, explorando seus objetivos, as metodologias que orientam suas atividades, o número e a natureza dos projetos inovadores voltados para o acesso aos direitos e ao sistema de justiça, bem como os indicadores de desempenho utilizados para medir seus resultados.