Interações universidade-governo-empresa por interveniência de fundação de apoio no contexto da inovação tecnológica da Ufal: levantamento de realidade e proposta de normatização

Abstract

The interactions between university-government-industry, which form the internationally recognized model of the Triple Helix, have received significant attention in the literature in recent decades and are widely disseminated in the productive sector. However, there are other important structures, such as the Technological Innovation Center and the Support Foundation, which function as intermediaries for efforts to ensure that the innovation cycle occurs, but the Foundation can be considered as a less explored object of study in this context. Support Foundations have historically enabled several universities to conduct programs and projects in collaboration with external actors, but the present work is restricted to the case of UFAL from the perspective of its relationship with Fundepes, formalized by the Protocol of Intentions and Resolution n. 39/CONSUNI/UFAL. Through research, an attempt was made to analyze the interactions between UFAL, the government and the company conducted with the intervention of Fundepes, within the scope of technological innovation. In addition, the objective was to contribute to the design of a regulation that improves the existing Protocol of Intentions and reconciles the national legal framework of innovation and RD&I in force with the needs of that university. To this end, a theoretical and technical survey was conducted through access to specialized literature and document analysis, including the investigation, with a comparative character, of the regulations of other federal universities in the Northeast to identify opportunities for improvement for UFAL. It is also worth mentioning that a diagnosis was made of the projects contracted in the years 2012 and 2021, executed by UFAL and supported by Fundepes, in order to understand the types of interactions with the productive sector and how they are characterized in demands for technological innovation. Through this analysis, the university's capacity to execute RD&I projects and the prospects for expanding these actions in the Triple Helix hypothesis were verified. The results contributed to the identification of important points that needed greater attention during the structuring of the regulations that could and be applied to the reality of UFAL, generating opportunities for cooperation with the government and companies, as well as supporting governance through institutional management.