A proteção do conhecimento e a inovação na Universidade Estadual de Londrina
University is notoriously recognized as a source of generation and dissemination of knowledge. Innovation derives from scientific knowledge, which in turns, through instruments of intellectual property such as patents, can be protected assuring the rights of the involved agents concerning to misappr...
| Autor principal: | Gonçalves, Adriana Aguillera |
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| Formato: | Dissertação |
| Idioma: | Português |
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Universidade Estadual de Londrina
2012
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http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/337 |
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University is notoriously recognized as a source of generation and dissemination of knowledge. Innovation derives from scientific knowledge, which in turns, through instruments of intellectual property such as patents, can be protected assuring the rights of the involved agents concerning to misappropriation of knowledge. Therefore, those instruments allow secure sharing, and eventually contribute to technological development. By this approach, the present study aimed at analyzing the resources the State University of Londrina (UEL) provides to researchers in terms of knowledge protection having the rise of innovations in the academic environment as objective. To achieve this goal, we developed a descriptive qualitative research through case study involving AINTEC managers and researchers who have applied patents in the period from 2008 to 2010. Data collection was performed in two stages. At first, through documentary research, we analyzed the resolution containing guidelines regarding protection of knowledge and the curriculum of Lattes platform for all participants in order to identify their profiles, their scientific production and the number of patent requests. The second stage allowed through interviews to come to know UEL Technological Innovation Agency (AINTEC), indispensable resource at knowledge protection. Thus, aspects related to the infrastructure of the agency were investigated along with the help and support that the inventors are given. Also at this stage, accounts from the researchers about the AINTEC performance, the awareness for the protection of knowledge, the most used mechanisms for the dissemination of a new technology and the difficulties found by the researcher in the process of patenting were gathered. Although the researchers have been working for long at the institution, the outcomes show that they are not aware of the knowledge protection in putting the article as primary importance as a mean of scientific promotion. The patenting process is thought as something complex, bureaucratic and slow. AINTEC cannot carry out its activities properly because of lack of trained personnel. The existing knowledge protection guidelines are mainly aimed at the inventor’s participation in the profits. With these results, it was possible to identify a scenario not very favorable to the rise of innovations considering the lack of labor, lack of resources in order to carry out research of innovative nature, lack of state-of-art equipment, aspects of culture in force in academic environment such as the continuous act of free sharing of ideas and knowledge, and the researcher’s lack of understanding on the benefits of knowledge protection. Perhaps for those reasons, bringing the knowledge to fruition, which benefits the society, has not been common action at UEL scientific community yet. There is still a long way to run for the innovation to be intensified in the academic environment and for university to have an effective participation in the innovative process. |
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