“…Networks constitute environments for knowledge production and learning (Hoffman, Molina-Morales, & Martinez-Fernandes, 2007;Ouro Filho et al, 2020;Sánchez et al, 2017) and contribute to increasing the competitiveness of companies (Centenaro, Guedes, & Laimer, 2017). They constitute cooperative strategies of small-and medium-sized companies (Bortolaso, Verschoore, & Antunes, 2012;Wegner, Bortolaso & Zonatto, 2016) and, thus, started to become a strategy to stimulate the creation of new businesses or to strengthen existing ventures, especially regarding the promotion of innovation in small businesses (Vaghely & Julien, 2010).…”