Análise do ambiente institucional e técnico para a transferência de conhecimento: o caso da UFJF

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Anna Paola Esteves de Faria
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/1931
• topic: Ambiente institucional; Transferência de conhecimento; Sistema de inovação; Institutional environment; Knowledge transfer; Innovation system; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO

This thesis provides a description and analysis of the institutional and technical environment set up for the transfer of knowledge from a federal university, reshaped by the enactment and regulation of the Innovation Act (2004). A review of historical aspects was conducted which points to innovation as the driving force behind a country's economic development. This enabled the identification of factors that influence the constitutional guidelines of an environment capable of promoting innovation. The evolutionary approach (NELSON; WINTER, 1982) characterizes innovation as a process which depends on the interaction between various actors and factors that will determine which knowledge and technology are developed, which affects the future path of economic change. In the innovation system approach (FURTADO, 1964; LUNDVALL, 1992), fostering economic development requires multiple and coordinated action of essential elements: government, production structure, and scientific and technological infrastructure. The structure of these entities, and therefore of universities, is designed along with the dynamics of the system. In the present case study of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), the agency in charge of managing knowledge transfer was created in 1995 with the same assumptions of the Innovation Act. The research was prepared based on studies by Gomes (2003, 2007, 2009b) with regard to the organizational structure approach and its institutional and technical environment, supported by the perspectives of Institutionalism (DIMAGGIO; POWELL, 1983) to analyze the legitimacy of the process in the environment, and of Resource Dependence (PFEFFER; SALANCIK, 1978) to investigate the influence of external actors in the allocation of resources. Backed by the Stakeholder Theory (FREEMAN, 1984), it was possible to identify the influence of the actors (GOMES, 2009b) on structuring the environment, when it became clear that UFJF s environment for knowledge transfer is not yet designed to provide a performance suitable to its scientific output, that there is centralization of power in decision making, and that isolated practices are adopted to promote its improvement, in partnership with other actors.