The Institutional Innovation Policy was the topic of debate open to the public on Monday morning (21/10), in the Consu Room. Members of the University Council (Consu) and interested parties in general were invited to the colloquium. The event is part of the Campinas Innovation Festival program and is part of a series of debates and seminars promoted by the Inova Unicamp Innovation Agency. “We realized that, due to the greatness of the University, there is still a lack of knowledge among some colleagues about our activities and even that Inova is the Technological Innovation Center (NIT) at Unicamp. This is why we are mobilizing to debate in the units what it is and what the benefits are for Unicamp in having an Institutional Innovation Policy, proposed together with a working group at the University”, explained the executive director of Inova, professor Newton Frateschi .
The director emphasized that, by having an institutionalized policy, teachers and researchers will have more security in some activities linked to innovation, such as partnerships with the business sector, incentives for entrepreneurship and the creation of spin-off companies. Sharing laboratories, distinguishing what is a service and what is development research, would also be one of the advantages of the policy. “It is important to highlight that the proposed policy guarantees better partnerships with companies, it also allows the possibility of creating more knowledge-based companies, including those generated at the university itself, all with a high positive socioeconomic impact without interfering with Unicamp’s pillar activities, which are Teaching, Research and Extension. It is additional security for the community, to legitimize what has already been done, but in a careful and clear way”, argued Frateschi.
Professor Anapatrícia Morales Vilha, director of technology transfer at the Innovation Agency of the Federal University of ABC (InovaABC) and Fábio Ferreira, deputy director of InovaABC also share the vision about the benefits of an institutionalized Innovation Policy. They were invited to speak about the recent process that took place at the Federal University of ABC. “Since 2016, with the Legal Framework for Science, Technology and Innovation, we have been debating our Innovation Policy at UFABC, which is extremely necessary to legitimize our activities as NIT. This was important for several points, such as, for example, partnerships between professors in the business environment, whether with Research and Development agreements or the possibility for researchers to have a PIPE FAPESP project (Innovative Research in Small Businesses)”, commented Vilha.
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