**3.3 Data collection**

As Engesa went bankrupt in 1993, primary sources were not found available. Therefore, data supporting the Cascavel and Osorio ecosystems were collected only from secondary sources such as articles, theses, books, and magazines. For the Guarani ecosystem, in addition to secondary sources, which included official documents *Dynamics of Innovation Ecosystems: Orchestrating Actors and Interactions in Emerging… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.111629*


### **Table 1.**

*Summary of interviews and questionnaires.*

and project reports from the Brazilian Army, the study administered six questionnaires and conducted 12 interviews. **Table 1** summarizes the interviews and questionnaires for the Guarani case.

### **3.4 Data analysis**

Based on the literature review and the research question, relevant topics were selected to code the collected data. Suppliers, complementors, focal firms, emergence, evolution, innovation, managerial issues, and technical issues are examples of codes applied during the study. Based on the cross-case synthesis for data analysis of multiple cases [28], the author organized the coded data according to the proposed framework and searched for cross-case patterns to interpret the data and elaborate on the research question.
