Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper aims to analyse the ordering of Technology Transfer Offices’ (TTO) positions regarding innovation indicators using multicriteria analysis as a tool. The purpose is to identify and analyse the TTOs’ strengths and weaknesses in a specific higher education institution in order to understand their performance via ranking, for obtaining revenues from intellectual property assets possibilities developed by them. The use of a methodology for the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), using two normalizing methods, was preceded by a treatment of this qualitative data with the Measuring Attractiveness by a Category Based Evaluation Technique (MACBETH). It is based on an applied questionnaire on TTO’s for recognizing the status of the technology transfer condition to developing nations, focusing on an approach to the institutionalization of TTO’s within a national context. The results of these technical applications bring together novel approaches to the processing of data using both methods to support multicultural decisions (using qualitative and quantitative data). These are initially arranged in different ways and present better analytical conditions in respect to the presented technological development. The first combination between TOPSIS and MACBETHS, with two normalized methods, and associated with a Pearson analysis between the criteria.
Highlights
Social innovation involves the shedding of companies that turn to developing innovative products and services which generate revenue in and out of its economic sector
Observations showed that Technology Transfer Offices’ (TTO) in Brazil have few actions to transfer knowledge to society because there are not partnerships in high volume among universities, society and companies, despite the government instituting an Innovation Law in 2004 for promoting such scientific development
It is suggested that TTOs have to increase the degree of their collaborators for giving better opportunities of investments in the production of articles, projects and intangible assets, with less expected bureaucracy from the norm via opening companies and developing products in Brazil
Summary
Social innovation involves the shedding of companies that turn to developing innovative products and services which generate revenue in and out of its economic sector. This paper intends to address the following research question: “What are the potentialities and weaknesses of these TTOs and how can they improve, in regards to the higher education institution to which they belong?”; “Which TTO’s have strong potential for developing innovative researches to became products and services, considering their infrastructure, human resources qualification and scientifically productivity?”; “Can MCDA combination help to understand better the IES how to support these TTO’s through a questionnaire results, considering subjectivity from those qualitative questions?” In this way, the aim of this study is to analyze – in a multicriteria method – results obtained from a TTOs’ questionnaire containing both qualitative and quantitative closed questions, and observe the grip on the multicriteria method TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) after the transformation of qualitative responses into quantitative using. This was true in public universities, where innovation culture development and a greater research results protecting importance, awareness resulted in the economic benefits sharing with academic researchers (Ritter dos Santos et al, 2013)
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