Programa Qui+S para a inovação em sustentabilidade no Brasil: estruturação, definição de desafios direcionadores em química e aceleração de startups

• Autor(a) principal: Maryna Moreira Barros
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/77460; https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0103-4900
• topic: Sustentabilidade; Qui+S; Inovação; Desafios; Startups; Inovações tecnológicas; Pesquisa tecnológica; Pesquisa e desenvolvimento; Química ambiental; Viabilidade econômica; Desenvolvimento sustentável; Ciência e tecnologia; Capacidade criativa na tecnologia; Universidade e indústria; Difusão de inovações; Incubadoras de empresas

Sustainability is a topic that has been widely discussed, especially considering the current context, in which environmental and social phenomena with negative impacts are becoming increasingly recurrent. In this sense, an important initiative is the Qui+S Program of the Brazilian Chemical Society (SBQ). This aims to impact sustainability in Brazil through chemistry and its actors, being structured into two Chemistry Objectives for Sustainable Development (OQDS). The first focuses on promoting sustainability through basic education and the second focuses on promoting sustainability through Research and Development (R&D) in universities and industries, also including the definition of the main sustainability challenges that the country currently faces. Thus, this dissertation aims to describe the Qui+S Program, showing the process of defining the driving challenges in chemistry and sustainability, as well as the initial projects of OQDS 2: the Qui+S webinar series – Connections for sustainability and the Escale-se Summit program. To choose the driving challenges in chemistry and sustainability, interviews were carried out and an online form was created and widely disseminated, with the participation of more than 70 professionals from universities, industries, the third sector and other organizations, considering criteria related to the economy, education, environment and social. Based on the results obtained, five major challenges were defined: 1)Chemistry for climate change; 2)Chemistry for waste transformation; 3)Chemistry for the sustainable water use; 4)Chemistry for the development of sustainable materials and 5)Chemistry for sustainable food production. Based on these challenges, the webinar series Qui+S: Connections for sustainability was held, in addition to the Escale-se Summit Program. The first aimed to promote connections between researchers and industry professionals. The Escale-se Summit, a program aimed at accelerating and scaling technologies, mapped 72 technologies within the themes of the five Qui+S challenges, selecting 10 so that they could be evaluated for their technical, economic and marketing viability and could be placed on the market from 2024.