Análise da atuação dos Núcleos de Inovação Tecnológica como promotores da política de inovação nas Instituições Científica, Tecnológica e de Inovação Federais

Abstract

The Innovation Law (LI) was created in 2004 and reiterated by the Marco Legal in 2016. It established the mandatory creation of Technological Innovation Centers (NIT) in schools, in order to manage the schools’ innovation policies, as well as stimulate the interaction among schools, the government and the private sector. In this context, the objective of the research was to evaluate the performance of NIT in the fulfillment of the competencies determined by the Innovation Law, characterizing the actions of the Technological Innovation Centers of the Federal Technological Scientific Institutions and Innovation (ICT) according to aspects of their management and structure and identifying the practices undertaken for the management of NIT, which proved to be more successful in fulfilling their competences. The research was conducted by means of a data survey, with exploratory character and constituted as applied, being carried out in two phases. The methodology involved a qualitative and quantitative approach, in which descriptive statistical techniques were used to analyze the data. Even with the presence of bottlenecks, the results presented here by evidence that the public policies which culminated with the creation of NIT had a positive impact, as it can be observed by the an increasing number of protection and licensing of innovative solutions.