O Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação em Desenvolvimento Tecnológico e Inovação no processo de inovação e empreendedorismo da Universidade Federal de Alagoas: problemas encontrados e propostas de solução

Abstract

The Scholarship Program for Initiation in Technological Development and Innovation comes as a tool for training human resources to solve problems with an innovative vision. At the Federal University of Alagoas, the program was implemented in 2007 and during ten years of offer, had the participation of 110 teachers and more than 550 students of the institution. With this descriptive and informative research, was sought to identify what this program achieved in terms of innovation and entrepreneurship at the Federal University of Alagoas from its creation in August 2007 to July 2017, regarding the creation of technological products and processes capable of intellectual protection, university-company partnerships for technological development and creation of incubated companies. In addition, it sought to identify some issues in the program processes that make it difficult for researchers to reach their final results and to propose guidelines for improvements in this program execution that may be applied in this and other institutions. As a result, was found that there is a low conversion of the research developed into protected technological products, companies created and formalized partnerships; it is assessed that the proposed guidelines are feasible, based on the reality of the Federal University of Alagoas, and that, although some of the proposed improvements relate to administrative procedures and / or documentary items of low complexity, they directly affect the progress of the program's processes and may jeopardize the selection of projects, their monitoring, and consequently their results.