Strategy and Innovation

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Energy, Environment, and Biodiversity

Humanities and Ethics

Culture and Education

Society and Development

Information and Communication Technology

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Theory and practice closer to the organizations

Chaired by Professor Gabriela Cardozo Ferreira, the Study and Research Group on Strategy and Innovation, created in 2008, currently pursues two lines of research. One line addresses the management of innovation, approaches innovating as an organizational competitive strategy, and assesses its effect on the performance of companies. The other research line addresses the university-industry-government interactions and focuses on innovation as a development strategy.

The current widest-scoped project involves all the group’s members. Launched in 2010 and scheduled to conclude by the second semester of 2013, this project belongs to the National Postdoctoral Program (PNPD-Capes) in the subject of the management of innovation and technology transfer within the context of university-industry interactions and focuses on the processes of technology transfer. The project’s main aim is to investigate and characterize the procedures related to this activity and to identify the forms of transfer applied by universities.

Based on study cases represented by HEIs from Brazil, Spain, and Portugal, the motivations for technology transfer, the facilitators and hindrances to this process, and the methods applied by different institutions under different circumstances are assessed. The basic assumption is that the results will characterize how the investigated process unfolds and will lead to attempts to define strategies to improve and increase its efficiency. On these grounds, this assessment is expected to influence the training of professors to stimulate the transfer of technology.

The initial data have previously been collected, and the qualitative phase of the project is complete. The quantitative phase began in the second semester of 2012. The project resulted in a large number of articles with a total of four by July 2012. This project is being conducted in partnership with the University of Caxias do Sul.