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Strategies for local development and innovative capacity improvement |
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Coordinators: Riccardo Viale
Project Editors: Cristian Miolo
Speakers: Emanuela Reale, Roberto Zoboli, Sergio Campodall'Orto
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During the 1980 decade Brazil underwent considerable transformations. On the politico-institutional sphere we assist the end of the militar regime and the return to a democratic state. Elections happen for state government and for municipal governments, and the opposition parties won the majority of the elections.
Regional development based on contributions from science and technology starts to be considered at state level. States Secretariats for Science & Technology starts to be established from1984 on, and beginning to develop regional S&T plans.
The new state role in S&T policy extended into the area of higher education since some universities and research institutes were connected to the state governments. Moreover, with the return of elections, also at the municipal level policies with regard to Science & Technology started to be proposed. In the face of these changes, the federal government found itself starts to take local (regional, state and municipal) considerations into account in the conduct of public policy towards Science & Technology.
Science and Technology starts to be more and more a matter of wide interest, no more circunscrit to the academic sphere, not only restrict to federal policies, but with penetration at regional, state and local levels.
Another important issue dominated the S&T political scenario in the 80s, the university-industry relationships. How to create new policies, new mechanisms to improve the transfer of knowledge from university to industry, that's the main point. All Brazilian efforts did in 1960s and 1970s to create pos-graduation programs at universities, were not transformed in results utilized by the industry.
The Brazilian National Council for Science and Technological Development (CNPq), normally more concerned to support science in the hope that applications will be appropriated by the firms, starts to create more focused technological programs at the 80s, aimed at the transfer of technology.
Looking for new approaches, new organizational formats, in use in the United States of America and Europe, at the end of the 1980s, Science Parks and Incubators took the attention of Brazilian policy makers.
Later on we assist new paraphernalia of governmental (federal, state and municipal) programs, like Technological Platforms, Clusters, Local Productive Arrangements, being implemented to foster local development and innovative capacity.
In the State of Rio de Janeiro it's in course many initiatives leading by industries association or by local government or by both, with the university participation, all with this above mentioned purpose.
The main purpose of the proposed Seminar Brazil-Italy is to organize a reflection about the main issues concerning on those initiatives, through the participation of a team of Brazilian researches working already in the follow up of those initiatives, with the participation of a team of Italian researches with expertise in a similar thematic at Italy, bring all Italian experience in Industrial Districts and so on.
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| Start Date: |
04-Dec-2002 |
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06-Dec-2002 |
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - COPPE (Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pòs-Graduaçao e Pesquisa de Engenharia) ,
Rio de Janeiro |
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