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Interaction Among Universities, Government and Spin-off Companies in a Brazilian Context to Generate Sports Innovation

The aim of this paper is to describe a study into Brazilian academic spin offs that are developing innovative products and services for the sports market, based on the triple helix model. The results show the characteristics of the products and services of the spin offs in the sporting field that were studied, their innovation sources and the financial resources they have received, as well as the university and government role in stimulating these innovations.

UNIFEI, Brazil: a case study of the role of the university in local development

The paper analyses the role played by the Universidade Federal de Itajuba, Brazil, in fomenting local development via the establishment and management of technology, traditional and cooperative incubators. Our theoretical basis for this analysis is the Triple Helix theory, which understands economic development as occurring through the transformation of traditional cultural-industrial areas into regional development poles, which are sustained by an alliance between government, university and private enterprise. In a Triple Helix region, universities and other knowledge-generating institutions are linked with investment funds and venture capital organisations to promote development through the interaction of three non-linear fields: knowledge, consensus and innovation.

CONTRIBUIÇÕES DAS CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS ÀS DISCUSSÕES AFETAS A CIÊNCIA, TECNOLOGIA E INOVAÇÃO

In its origins, the social sciences have focused on technological issues. Social scientists have devoted much attention to the subject affects the action of technological progress on the conformation of human life in General, as well as keeping an eye on more concreteness about the aspects related to the way the technique is acquired, the ways employed to protect her and the tools used to Exchange and protection. In this context, the article aims to identify the contributions of social sciences-notably of the applied social sciences-to discussions involving science, technology and innovation. The survey used the inductive method, applied to the literature review. The findings point to multidisciplinarity of significant thematic affects to science, technology and innovation. Keywords: Scientific knowledge; Social Sciences; Technology and society.

INOVAÇÃO E SOCIEDADE

Normal 0 21 The aim of this paper is to analyze the changes in society and everyday life of people and workers of specific activities when technological changes occur. The continuous process innovations creation introduces new artifacts as well makes others obsolete. Particularly in the late 20th century to the 21st intensification of this process has generated a prevalence of technology in defining the conditions of human life, as a result of search of unlimited knowledge. Keywords: innovation, technology, society.