Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: VICTOR SEABRA DORNAS

ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF ACADEMIC SPIN-OFFS ON INNOVATION ENVIRONMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BRASÍLIA

Academic Spin-offs. Technological indicators and indices. Strategic innovation management.

The efficiency of strategic innovation management depends on the quality of diagnoses obtained from technological indicators and indexes. This statement covers highly complex scenarios, such as national innovation systems, and also smaller scope environments, such as universities. International literature has long researched methodologies that attest to the effectiveness of technology negotiations by commercialization agencies. This financial concern influenced Brazilian debates about Technological Innovation Centers (NITs). The present study sought to expand this understanding of technology transfer, relating financial indicators with aspects of human resources qualification. It was considered that the phenomenon of academic spin-offs (technological ventures conceived by positive research results) was essential for uniting the variables (financial and social). The analysis scenario was the innovation environment of the University of Brasília (UnB), the Brazilian university institution that presented the highest historical royalty data and it was found that more than 70% of these royalties arise precisely from contracts with academic spin-offs, although the institution does not maintain this performance with other indicators, such as patent numbers. It was found that spin-offs are the reason for the discrepancy between royalties and protections at UnB. As an example, we analyzed a spin-off case from UnB considered one of the most promising in terms of generating financial, social and environmental impact. Founded due to the invention of a nanobiostimulant that can mitigate part of Brazil's technological dependence on the international fertilizer market. The study demonstrated that the high impact propensity of spin-offs calls for public policies that encourage the replicability of successes to promote a globally competitive Brazilian technological consolidation.