BRAZILIAN COMMUNITY UNIVERSITIES AND REGIONAL POLICIES FOR TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

摘要

In recent years, Brazil has sought to adapt its technical policies, industries and encouraging innovation sectors such as academia, industry and the government itself. In this paper will be presented one option to foster these policies by establishing university research parks supported by Community Universities in Brazil. The interactive design innovation certainly was a step toward adopting the systemic model that basically brought an approach and focus not only businesses and market, or in research, thus recognizing a system and interaction of agents. It is understood that the political and institutional arrangements that support and streamline the scientific and technological production showed changes in their training and performance in recent years. It is at this point that the dynamics of university-industry relations, public-private-partnership (PPP), are emerging as one of the key solutions to enhance technology and foster innovation. Thus, combining scientific knowledge and technique can bring technology, new processes that influence behavior including social, economic, from one location. In Brazil, one of the trends to foster this interaction between agents is the combination of efforts between universities and the productive sector in the formation of regional university research parks. In this context, they are Community Universities, which in its constitution differ from the Brazilian public universities, as they allow for greater flexibility and agility in the development of relations with the private sector. Brazilian Community Universities represent a segment of higher education institutions, which, in addition to teaching, are directed to the community, providing various social activities for several decades. Created by civil society and the public of local government in which they operate, they have no profit, all of which earned funds are invested in the institution and in projects for the community. They are strongly recognized by the community as an important factor of development. This study aims to present the importance of creating regional policies at Community Brazilian universities to local and regional technological development, especially in the university research parks training support. On the methodology adopted in this study, we adopted the basic qualitative research where data collection was done through the analysis of documents and professional experiences. As to the objectives, it is an exploratory research in order to explain the main features of the issues addressed. The sources, it is a secondary literature, based on previously published material. The conclusions point out that the strengthening of regional technology policy is fundamental to the Community Brazilian universities further contribute to the technological development of the regions in which they operate. In this sense, university research parks, demonstrate to be an important tool for universities, allowing them a strengthening of their role and importance in the locality and likewise for university research parks that get a scientific and organizational support already structured. It is recognized that this article has limitations and it is recommended that others studies with other research institutions need to be carried out, allowing a comparative study done on this, enabling a more expanded view of the Brazilian scene.