Atualização da Política de Inovação e Planejamento Estratégico do NIT do Instituto Federal de Alagoas - IFAL

Abstract

The Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology (IFs) are considered Scientific, Technological and Innovation Institutions (ICTs) in the context of the Innovation Law, which deals with incentives for innovation and scientific and technological research in the productive environment. It is observed that the IFs play an essential role for economic growth and application of knowledge for social development (within the interactions of the academic-government-industry triple helix). In this context, the Technological Innovation Centers (NITs) are responsible for fostering innovation and managing the intellectual property and innovation policy of these ICTs. With the approval of the new Legal Framework for Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I) (Law 13.243/2016), the need to update the innovation policy of ICTs arose. It should also be noted, in addition to updating the internal documents, the importance of building the NIT's strategic planning, based on concrete data, considering the reality of the organization and current legislation, with its own metrics for monitoring and evaluating the results, to guarantee the effectiveness in the execution of its innovation policy. This work aimed to situate the NIT of the Federal Institute of Alagoas (Ifal) in the face of national data, propose updating the innovation policy and prepare a proposal for strategic planning of the NIT, aligned with the Institutional Development Plan (PDI) of Ifal 2019-2023. To this end, an analysis of Ifal's internal documents was carried out in light of the new legal framework for ST&I, data from the 38 IFs in Brazil (through the e-Sic platform, based on the Access to Information Law), were collected and analyzed. The Pronit model was adopted for planning preparation. Of the main results related to the information provided by the Brazilian IFs, it was noticed that in relation to the innovation policy, 13% did not have it, 40% did not update their policy by the Law 13.243/2016, 16% updated it, but did not publish it and 31% updated it based on Decree 9.283/2018, complementing the aforementioned Law. There were still results: 60% of the IFs had some activity related to business incubators, 34% were accredited as Embrapii units, 40% did not disclose their technological portfolio (Ifal discloses) and 45% made publicly available the flows, procedures, etc. about the operation of technological services. Ifal's innovation policy was defined by Resolution No. 06/2017, but it did not contain the changes required by Decree 9.283/2018 that were carried out in this work, culminating in Resolution No. 13/2020, where changes were made regarding the adequacy and inclusion of definitions (such as a business incubator, technology hub, etc.), of the objectives and competence of the NIT, as well as stimulation, participation and gains in the innovation process. It was also found that from the update of the innovation policy made in 2017, there was a growth in Ifal's technological portfolio, mainly computer programs (more than 30), followed by patents and industrial design. A strategic plan was prepared, with indicators and targets, as well as an action and measurement plan for Ifal until 2023.