Acompanhamento da inovação tecnológica em campi fora de sede: estudo de caso no Instituto Federal de Alagoas

Abstract

The Federal Institute of Alagoas is an important knowledge production ecosystem in the state of Alagoas. Within its 16 campuses, it is responsible for producing a rich and innovative human capital and resources, relevant to this state's innovation ecosystem. However, its Technological Innovation Nucleus (NIT) is in the city of Maceió, responsible for all management activity and monitoring of the knowledge production process of all campuses linked and centralized to this single nucleus.It should be noted that the management activity is carried out – on a local basis, on a campus outside the headquarters – by a coordination that exercises, in parts, the function of managing innovation, with some initiatives being exclusive to the NIT.Therefore, it was perceived the need to investigate how the management process of the main scientific initiation programs of this institution occurs, in campuses outside the headquarters, in order to understand what the greatest needs are and which aspects can be improved, with the intention of encouraging innovation within the scope of these notices and programs. Based on the above, this work’s purpose was to propose a methodology that would improve the management of scientific and technological initiation programs at the Federal Institute of Alagoas, with the intention of facilitating the work between the local coordination and the NIT, resulting in greater production of important assets to society and its evasion of the boundaries of the campus. Hence, bibliographical research was carried out in books, dissertations and scientific articles, as a way of subsidizing the concepts of intellectual property, innovation as well as the role of the NITs, to build a theoretical contribution capable of supporting the intervention proposal. An exploratory and documentary research was also accomplished, it consisted of the investigation and analysis of ordinances, laws, institutional regulations of the IFAL, notices of scientific and technological initiation programs, and institutional websites, along with interviews with the research coordination, postgraduate studies and innovation at the Palmeira dos Índios campus, which was chosen as a study case. As results, it is expected that the proposed intervention improves the innovation management processes, and facilitate the transfer knowledge process, strengthening the culture of innovation in this institution.