SUMMARY
Innovation management is a criticalactivity for all companies because it supports the strategic direction, guidesthe resources allocation, provide sustainability to business, create newcapabilities and generate new knowledge, and making enterprises morecompetitive. As a consequence, research & development towards innovationhas becoming an important issue for companies which aims at achieving betterresults and competitiveness, especially in emerging markets, like in Brazil. Inthis context, this paper analyses publications on innovation that were outletof ten Brazilian journals within the scope of operations management. It aims tounderstand and point out some characteristics of the papers and identifiesresearch opportunities in the subject. This was done by verifying what has beeninvestigated in the innovation context in Brazil. The paper consists of atheoretical study to achieve a better understand concerning innovation in thecountry based on a literature analysis. The results show that although theinnovation concept was expanded few years back, most papers still address thetechnological innovation perspective, especially focused on product issues. Anotherdominant aspect concerns studies that identify and analyze innovationcharacteristics in a particular industry, such as automotive, energy, ceramics,construction, among others. Additionally, comparative studies among sectors orcompanies have been developed. Despite of these outlets it can be concludedthat there are opportunities for furter research in other innovationperspectives, such as in processes, services, marketing and organizationalprocesses. Other research gaps and perspectives in this sample of theliterature are also discussed.