Produção técnica: produção invisível?

Abstract

The research here concluded aims to analyze UFMG professors and researchers' technical production concerning selected fields of knowledge: Architecture and urbanism, Computing, Dentistry and Philosophy; so as to identify and caracterize them. These specific areas were chosen for being different among themselves in terms of their inherent methods and research object. The investigation itself is based on ideas which defend the integration among technique, science and intellectual activity, being recognized by the sponsor and supporting organisms CAPES and CNPq as such. In order to understand what is the technical production itself, empirical research was made using data from questionnaires and interview provided by the researchers and respective CAPES area coordinators, as well as information available in the CAPES and CNPQ lattes platform website. The total amount 264 professors and researchers were contacted and had the relevant data used for the empirical research; being 20% from the areas of dentistry, computing and philosophy, and 30% from architecture and urbanism. Quality and quantity data was analyzed in categories which allowed its identification, classification and characterization. Such research yielded important results: the understanding that the analysis concerning technical production is performed differently by the supporting institutions; the absence of specific registration option for certain activities addressed; the recognition of how grand is the volume of the intellectual activity as well as the lack of regulation policy and classification tools for such production became evident. This research also enabled the tracing of the technical production characteristics as well as the proposition of a list, containing activities thought to be misplaced in category . The data analyzed clearly points out the understanding that technical production is a group of activities developed in the academic environment, and could favor professors' and researchers individual production and the institution itself broadly, developing both science and society as a whole.