University-enterprise interaction in Brazilthe role of the public research infrastructure

Resumo

This paper discusses the university-enterprise interactions in the Brazilian innovation
 system by focusing on the characteristics of the public research infrastructure which
 affects its propensity to interact with the industrial sector. Logistic regressions have been
 used to identify, in a wide set of explanatory variables, the characteristics of the research
 infrastructure which increase its probability of supplying technological services to firms.
 Besides the primary data collected from a survey carried out in a sample of institutions
 related to the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), data
 concerning the scientific and technological production of the researchers affiliated to
 each laboratory have also been used in the regressions. The choice of the explanatory
 variables was based in a brief literature review on the role of the research infrastructure
 in the national innovation systems. Aiming at supporting the discussion of the results of
 the regressions, this review also included a brief report of the recent interactions between
 the research infrastructure and the industrial sector in Brazil. The main findings of the
 logistic regressions are: i) the size of the laboratory (as measured by the number of affiliated
 researchers) and of the qualification of its research team positively and significantly affects
 its propensity to interact with the industrial sector; ii) multidisciplinary laboratories tend
 to interact more with the industrial sector than laboratories focused on a single field of
 expertise; iii) there seems to be a tradeoff between scientific publications and market
 oriented research, since the number of papers published by the affiliated researchers
 is negatively correlated to the probability of supplying technological services to firms.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Estudo

Ano

2015

Instituição

Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea)

Fonte

Repositório do Ipea

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Acesso aberto

Identificador

oai:repositorio.ipea.gov.br:11058/4951

Licença

Licença Comum

Abrangência

Brasil

Temas

InfraestruturaTecnologia

Palavras-chave

Interação universidade-empresaProdução científicaSistemas de inovaçãoInfraestrutura de pesquisa