Gestão dos produtos tecnológicos da UFAL: estado da arte e disseminação do conhecimento

Abstract

The globalized market and the speed of information worldwide, with a technological revolution and its development, the control and management of information have become almost mandatory items for quality management in any organization. Technology with its advances and modalities became possible due to the constant search for the unfolding and improvement of solutions. Management tools can be presented through software or techniques used to improve their results, processes, systems and projects. In the management of intellectual property it would not be different, the search to investigate, to obtain control over processes or to follow the dynamics of the work becomes evident. For this, it is necessary to implement a management system, in order to favor the achievement of objectives with more effective and efficient actions. The present work aims to research the management tools used to monitor the intellectual property in the Technological Innovation Centers of Federal Universities (IFES) from the Northeast region and to disseminate the management tool for the technological products available at Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) to the academic community. The results of the technological mapping of intellectual property management tools in the IFES in the Northeast region of Brazil show a gap in the development of computer programs that can function as a tool to assist in the management of intellectual property and technological innovation, with monitoring requirements, evaluation and classification of the innovation potential of the research carried out in the institutions. The percentages obtained in the consultation carried out with active UFAL researchers demonstrate the low use of local system by researchers in their research activities, as well as even lower usability and use in the Intellectual Production and Research modules. In this way, the importance of valuing, disseminating, increasing the visibility and dissemination of this tool is perceived, generating an Intellectual Property Booklet for UFAL Inventors from the dissertation.