Banca de DEFESA: PAULO ROBERTO NOVAIS SOARES DE QUADROS

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : PAULO ROBERTO NOVAIS SOARES DE QUADROS
DATA : 30/08/2021
HORA: 14:30
LOCAL: https://conferenciaweb.rnp.br/events/defesa-de-doutorado-de-paulo-roberto-novais-soares-quadros
TÍTULO:

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL PARKS: A 40-YEAR HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION, BETWEEN SUCCESSES AND FAILURES, IN BRAZIL (1981-2020). 9

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Scientific and Technological Park; Science and Research Park; Innovation; Brazil; History.

PÁGINAS: 308
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: História
SUBÁREA: História das Ciências
RESUMO:

The initiatives of Scientific and Technological Parks (PqCT) have completed 40 years, since its genesis, by the creation of Centers for Technological Innovation (1981) in Brazil. But those are still a controversial issue, due to huge federal public investments they have been receiving over the years. According to international experts present at the International Seminar on Technological Parks (1987), the Federal Government should not be involved in any of the stages (design, implementation, or operation) of the Parks, because these are, by nature, institutions of the private sector with local impact, due to its promised output: innovative products to the consumer market. To support my thesis, which questioned the results provided by the PqCT to society that finances them, through the payment of taxes, I proposed qualitative methodological aspects less present in the national literature. To facilitate the understanding of the reader interested in the studied object, especially the non-specialized one, I made use of a less formal language, but still adherent to the academic precepts. Initially, I contextualized the emergence of two paradigms of innovation (Stanford Industrial Park and "Silicon Valley"), as a result of the American entrepreneurial dynamics in the creation of a private university (in contrast to Brazilian public universities), the opportunities created by the 2nd World War/Cold War and the differentiated performance of an inspiring professor/manager. Then I debated the Latin American vision of innovation as a mechanism for the development of the region. In relation to Brazil, I described the first actions related to the Parks, especially the aforementioned seminar, as central to demonstrate that it was already known, at that time, that our country, as well as other Latin American nations, did not have the presuppositions for Parks initiatives to succeed. Even so, new, and large investments were noticed by the Central Government, involving the action of academy and government actors, in their various instances, close to multinationals and large public companies, yet away from the private sector, which, in turn, showed no interest in bringing it closer to it, to perform cooperative R&D and generate innovative products, based on Research on C&T, by conflict of historical interests, not yet overcome. I performed a basic quantitative analysis of 110 T&D, obtaining revealing and unpublished indicators, which contributed to the better understanding of this multifaceted institution, with numerous possibilities of confrontations and interpretations. I realized, through this thesis, one of these combinations. I also identified several inconsistencies in government research conducted, in partnership with universities and civil society organization, with great interest in the success of national Parks, as well as Parks funding agencies, with severe criticism of their results. Finally, I presented a longitudinal section of the PqCT most referenced by the authors of T&D, revealing several aspects relevant to my research. In the final considerations I made some comments and highlighted that my critical look, at all stages of the thesis, was always to build "a story", among many, from my perception, based on data and objective facts, aware that others should contest them or confirm them in the future. This is how Brazilian science evolves.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Externo à Instituição - ALEX VIEIRA DOS SANTOS - ACB
Presidente - 645.031.008-15 - AMILCAR BAIARDI - UFRB
Externo ao Programa - 153.145.885-87 - ELIAS RAMOS DE SOUZA - IFBA
Externo ao Programa - 1698312 - HORACIO NELSON HASTENREITER FILHO
Interna - 834.495.587-49 - MOEMA DE REZENDE VERGARA - MAST