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This book brings a series of articles that analyze the interactions of universities and research institutes with companies in Brazil, as constitutive parts of relationships that are established within the scope of a national innovation system. The texts present in the work deal with aspects of these interactions and methodological procedures for the treatment of data from the CNPq research groups directory, in addition to identifying the characteristics of exchanges between universities and companies, in state and regional parameters. The articles contribute to assess, at a given moment, the pattern of university-business interaction in the country.

This book brings a series of articles that analyze the interactions of universities and research institutes with companies in Brazil, as constitutive parts of relationships that are established within the scope of a national innovation system. The texts present in the work deal with aspects of these interactions and methodological procedures for the treatment of data from the CNPq research groups directory, in addition to identifying the characteristics of exchanges between universities and companies, in state and regional parameters. The articles contribute to assess, at a given moment, the pattern of university-business interaction in the country.

O presente trabalho apresenta informações do Diretório dos Grupos de Pesquisa do CNPq que podem ser exploradas na investigação da interação universidade-empresa no Brasil. Para tal são utilizados como proxy os grupos de pesquisa cadastrados no CNPq que declararam algum relacionamento com o setor produtivo. As informações foram extraídas do Censo 2004 do Diretório dos Grupos de Pesquisa do CNPq. Os resultados mostram a maior freqüência das atividades de pesquisas científicas e de transferência de tecnologia que se caracterizam como trocas bidirecionais de conhecimento. Esse panorama pode estar apontando para avanços no desenvolvimento de uma linguagem comum entre os grupos de pesquisa e o setor produtivo. Esta investigação ilustra especificidades recentes do Sistema Nacional de Inovação do País, indicando que ainda há espaço para incentivos que fomentem a transferência do conhecimento acadêmico para as empresas.This paper uses a specific database on research groups from CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) to investigate university-industry interactions in Brazil. Only research groups that declare any relationship with the productive sector are used as proxies for those interactions. The data were collected from CNPq 2004 Census on Research Groups Directory. Although with limitations intrinsic to the kind of information collected, the database supplies useful evidence from recent university-industry interactions in the country. The most frequent relationships are scientific research and technology transference that are characterized as bi-directional knowledge flows, what suggests advances in the development of a common language between universities and firms. Such results illustrate a specificity of the Brazilian National System of Innovation, but they also suggest that there is ample room for new incentives to foster academic knowledge transference to firms in the country.