University-company interaction: case analysis of two Brazilian universities

• Autor(a) principal: Chais, Cassiane
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Ganzer, Paula Patrícia, Miri, Daniel Hank, Matte, Juliana, Olea, Pelayo Munhoz
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: RACE (Joaçaba. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unoesc.edu.br/race/article/view/23812
• topic: Entrepreneurial university; Case study; Spin-offs academics; Universidade empreendedora; Estudo de caso; Spin-offs acadêmicos

The university's history is based on contributing to the advancement of knowledge and technology in a country's socio-economic context through teaching, research, and extension. The knowledge generated by the research carried out by students and researchers can cause interaction with different actors, among them the companies, leading to the transfer of knowledge produced at the university to the market. In line with the above, this study aimed to analyze how university-company interaction occurs from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos) cases. The method used is of a qualitative approach and exploratory nature, characterized as a case study, having as elements two Brazilian Higher Education Institutions. Besides bibliographic and documental research, a semi-structured interview with university managers and researchers was adopted for data collection. For the data analysis, the content analysis was used, with the treatment through NVivo® software. The main results showed that companies and universities need to understand that it is necessary to cooperate in collaborative technological research. This way, the financial resources invested by public or private initiatives are not only accepted as articles published in scientific journals but also become technological innovations disseminated to the market.