Erasmo Gomes

As relações universidade-empresa-governo: um estudo sobre a Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

Recent studies on the relationship between university and society have indicated the emergence of a Second Academic Revolution, as to the classical activities of teaching and research, universities are now incorporating local and regional development. Additionally, some authors suggest the Triple Helix concept, an intermediate proposal between free market economy and a centrally planned one, and an alternative for the linear innovation model approach. The present survey intends to appraise the intensity of these transformations in the Brazilian case, more specifically at a renowned university, Unicamp - established in the early 1960s to perform technological research to support the countrys industrialisation process. First, data from Foundation for the Development of Unicamp were collected for the period 1982-1995. 732 contracts were evaluated. Contracts were analysed as to number, average duration, total funding, and average value, as well as by date and category of the funding agency. In the second part, a sample of 25% of the contracts conducted with industry and public administration was selected, a total of 116 contracts leading to 57 interviews with professors-co-ordinators of the selected contracts. Data collected during this phase were related to characterisation and evaluation of contracts, profile, motivation and interaction tendencies, as well as an appraisal of a liaison office.

A relação universidade-empresa: comentários sobre um caso atípico

This article presents a case of interaction university-industry considered as positive for the involved professionals - professors and researchers of the university and technical team of the company - in terms of university reserch and formation of human resources as well as to the trajectory of technological qualification of the company. More specifically, it approaches the accomplishment of a research and development project (R&D) involving professors and researchers of the Faculty of Engineering Mechanics of the State University of Campinas (FEM/Unicamp) and a multinational company of the sector of auto-parts, called, to the time, Clark Equipments, currently Eaton Trucks Corporation. The article looks for to detach aspects related to the antecedents of the interaction, as well as those related to the motivation that in the scope of the company had led to the accomplishment of the contract with the university. Search still to know the opinion of the technical team of the company, as well as of the researchers of the Unicamp, concerning its implications. The authors expects, with the presentation of this in case, to contribute for one better understanding of a present question in the current agenda of the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: to evaluate the role can play multinationals companies for the national effort of technological development.This article presents a case of interaction university-industry considered as positive for the involved professionals - professors and researchers of the university and technical team of the company - in terms of university reserch and formation of human resources as well as to the trajectory of technological qualification of the company. More specifically, it approaches the accomplishment of a research and development project (R&D) involving professors and researchers of the Faculty of Engineering Mechanics of the State University of Campinas (FEM/Unicamp) and a multinational company of the sector of auto-parts, called, to the time, Clark Equipments, currently Eaton Trucks Corporation. The article looks for to detach aspects related to the antecedents of the interaction, as well as those related to the motivation that in the scope of the company had led to the accomplishment of the contract with the university. Search still to know the opinion of the technical team of the company, as well as of the researchers of the Unicamp, concerning its implications. The authors expects, with the presentation of this in case, to contribute for one better understanding of a present question in the current agenda of the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: to evaluate the role can play multinationals companies for the national effort of technological development.