O novo marco legal da ciência, tecnologia e inovação e as transferências de tecnologia: um ensaio sobre a experiência da Universidade Federal de Lavras

Abstract

The relations between university and society, along the role of the university in the context of knowledge society and, specifically, the changes in university-company relationship, are relevant subjects to be studied. The technology transfer is one of the ways to establish partnerships between university and the private sector, and in this context, it occurs through the transfer of products, processes or knowledge of academic community to the productive and industrial sector, reverting at the end, in benefit for the own society, ensuring an improvement on the quality of life of the population. The Law 13.243/2016 - also known as the New Legal Mark of the Science, Technology and Innovation or the New Law of Innovation - that possesses as basic premise the idea of reducing the bureaucratize and making easy the innovation in Brazil, a objective that the old legislation about the topic, the Law 10.973/2004 was not able to achieve. The legislative changes are significatives, notably, giving more legal security on the application of the law and less bureaucratic in the relationship university-company. From the point of view of the brazilian public university, the importance of the present work is justified by the production of scientific knowledge in Brazil to focus primarily in this environment. The object was, so, through the analysis of the technology transfers realized by the Technology Innovation Core of UFLA (NINTEC/UFLA), to check if the arrangements of the New Law of Innovation are being minimally effective, considering the challenges faced during the processes. The methodologies used were the exploratory and the descriptive, together, with a focus on five cases of licencing performed by the University from 2007 to 2016. At the end of the study, it remained proved the hypothesis that it had an increase of the number of processes and an ease on the proceedings of technology transfer generated at the University since the promulgation of Law 13.243/2016.