Vinculação entre universidade e pequenas empresas: debate recente e desafios para a América Latina

Abstract

The systemic approach to innovation points out that interactions between companies and public research organizations are central elements for the process of generating and disseminating innovations. There is a vast body of work in the literature in recent decades that has been concerned with understanding the links between universities and companies, especially with regard to investigating the formats, channels and motivations involved in university-company relations. These works have been applied to both developed countries (Cohen et al., 2002; Klevorick et al., 1995; Nelson, 2006) and developing countries (Albuquerque et al., 2015; Dutrénit et al., 2010; Suzigan et al., 2009), and showed the growing importance of links with universities to foster business innovation.