Cooperation for technological development: an analysis in the context of Federal Universities of Minas Gerais State

Humberto Rodrigues Marques,Marcelo De Oliveira Garcia,Déborah Lima Scalioni,Paulo Henrique De Souza Bermejo

doi:10.1016/j.rai.2016.02.003

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Abstract

The open innovation concept emerges as a substantial factor to innovation management of organizations. Given the importance of universities to the innovation system, they also have adapted to this new paradigm. The objective was to identify the main partners of federal universities of Minas Gerais state - Brazil about the technological development. Characterized as qualitative and descriptive, the research was based on secondary data collected in the INPI patent database through the CNPJ of the 11 federal universities. Thus, it was evidenced that the interactions carried out by federal universities analyzed are an important way of corroborating for technological development.

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The definition of open innovation is different from the concept of closed innovation, mainly with respect to the way in which companies capture ideas for the development of organizational innovations
We investigated public and federal universities of the Minas Gerais state: Federal University of Alfenas (UNIFAL); Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI); Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF); Federal University of Lavras (UFLA); Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG); Federal University of de Ouro Preto (UFOP); Federal University of São João del-Rei (UFSJ); Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM); Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU); Federal University of Viçosa (UFV); and Federal University of Vales do Jequitinhonha and Mucuri (UFVJM)
According to the data collected through the search strategy in the INPI patent database, was recovered a total of 1056 patent document deposited, in which 3 refers to UNIFAL, 22 to UNIFEI, 74 to UFJF, 47 to UFLA, 599 to UFMG, 81 UFOP, 13 to UFSJ, 1 to UFTM, 88 to UFU, 124 to UFV, and 4 to UFVJM

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The definition of open innovation is different from the concept of closed innovation, mainly with respect to the way in which companies capture ideas for the development of organizational innovations. The open innovation concept, originally defined by Chesbrough (2003), is a recent topic and still not well defined which according to its creator represents the use of internal and external ideas in innovation processes by companies. In this sense, among several external agents to enable companies to strengthen partnerships for the development of innovation, the universities stand out as an essential actor in the relation with many industries (Venturini, Verbano & Bron, 2013; Oliveira & Alves, 2014; Chesbrough & Vanhaverbeke, 2011). Some authors emphasize the need to approach the open innovation theme in universities, as well as the interactions of these with others transmitters of knowledge agents (Janeiro, Proença & Gonçalves, 2013; Segarra-Blasco & Arauzo-Carod, 2008; Chesbrough & Bogers, 2014; Villasalero, 2014)

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