Spots of interaction summarize the nature of partial connections (between science and technology) operating in the Brazilian system of innovation. A pilot study in Minas Gerais, Brazil, uses two new research tools (for immature NSIs) and presents a database with research groups located in...

This paper evaluates interactions between firms and universities in Minas Gerais, one of the Brazilian states. The heterogeneity in Minas Gerais replicates the heterogeneity that exists in Brazil as a whole. This paper adapts the pioneering Yale and Carnegie Mellon surveys (USA) to an immature...

This paper presents preliminary results from a survey of R&D-performer industrial firms located in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The inspiration for this research comes from the Yale Survey (Klevorick et all, 1995) and from the Carnegie Mellon Survey (Cohen et all, 2002), for these Surveys...

The innovative activity is an important instrument to promote countries andeconomies development (Schumpeter, 1982). It’s important to stress that it's not anindividual effort but a result of a collective process (Nelson, 2004). Inside this dynamicthat university-industry interaction should be...

The present work introsuces CNPq's research group's database that can be used to investigate university-industry interactions in Brazil. CNPq's research groups that declared any relationship with firms are used as a proxy. The data were collected in CNPq's Research Groups Directory in Census...

O presente trabalho investiga a interação universidade-empresa no Brasil tendo como proxy os grupos de pesquisa cadastrados no CNPq que declararam algum relacionamento com empresa. As informações foram extraídas do Diretório dos Grupos de Pesquisa do CNPq referentes aos Censos 2002 e 2004....