Abstract. Subsidiaries of multinational companies have played an important role as agents of industrialization processes in the state of Paraná, Brazil. Since the 1960s, more than 500 foreign companies have located in this state, mainly in the Curitiba metropolitan area. Their economic impact includes generation of employment, wealth, innovation, and technology diffusion. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between innovation and internationalization, and whether the subsidiaries of multinationals are innovative. The methodology employed in this study was the analysis of documents and interviews. The results demonstrate that at least one-third of these subsidiaries have innovated.

The recent growing needs in the global food industry have been demanding an agile and resilient response to continue manufacturing products with the expected quality and food safety. A key element for this is the agility of the quality management of the supply chain, which has been achieved from using a correct quality management data digitization as well as its processing through business analytics and whose results are presented in this business case. A prerequisite to be met was the global standardization of supplier performance evaluation criteria, whose efforts were achieved through the coordination of quality management professionals from France, Italy, the United States, Mexico, Brazil and Chile. With the standardized performance evaluation criteria, the calculation mechanisms were defined, which were later developed by the IT teams through Business Analytics solutions and represe...