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The objective of this article is to present a successful program that built a National Innovation Network based in the University Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs), incubators and science parks.The University Technology Enterprise Network (UTEN), which was launched in March 2007, includes 15 Portuguese Universities and select international partners in a 5-Year program funded by the Portuguese government. The main objective has been to accelerate the development of a sustainable, globally competitive, professional technology transfer and commercialization network within Portugal to increase Portugal’s international competitiveness in university–based science, and technology transfer and commercialization. We argue that all initiatives taken place in the project have gotten UTEN network presently run in the Open Innovation paradigm fostered mostly by the TTOs and their own networks and officers. Science and technology based entrepreneurship was increasingly seen as a key element of P...

Esse estudo descreve uma revisão sistemática da literatura sobre a aplicação dos conceitos e elementos da Indústria 4.0(I4.0) na produção de medicamentos a partir de processos biotecnológicos. O termo "indústria 4.0" trata da quarta revolução industrial atualmente em curso. Um dos seus objetivos é a integração entre o mundo real e virtual através da adoção de Sistemas Ciberfísicos, Internet das Coisas e outros elementos tecnológicos propostos pela I4.0. A revisão sistemática considerou publicações até agosto de 2019, sem restrição de data de início, por ser um assunto relativamente recente. Os resultados mostram numerosos documentos publicados sobre o tema I4.0, porém poucos relacionados à indústria biofarmacêutica. Os principais documentos obtidos através da revisão são discutidos ao longo deste artigo. A maioria das publicações aplicadas ao campo biofarmacêutico ainda se encontra em revistas e jornais especializados, provavelmente por causa da incipiência do assunto. Os ...

The automotive industry is frequently associated with high polluting manufacturing systems, which raise concern owing to the current environmental frame. For this reason, new alternative manufacturing technologies with lower environmental impact have been proposed and tested, such as additive manufacturing (AM). Since AM technologies produce almost no waste, they can represent a huge opportunity for the automotive industry to become greener. In this sense, the object of the present review is to explore the challenges and strategies of 3D printing, recycling, and circular economy in the automotive industry. Therefore, to achieve the aim of the study, a systematic review methodology was used in five stages: (1) defining the targets; (2) extraction of papers from Scopus; (3) text mining and corpora text analysis of relevant documents from the platform; (4) identification of the dominant categories of the research topics; and (5) discussion and control of obtained results and provision ...

Entrepreneurship is a vital component in a country's pursuit of a sustainable, equitable and inclusive economic development and growth strategy. In the past decades, BRICS nations' rapid economic development and growth have relied strongly on entrepreneurial activities as one of their main economic strategies. BRICS countries have fostered and supported entrepreneurial activities, including the role of universities in fostering entrepreneurial activities. This paper assesses the role and experience of Brazilian entrepreneurial universities in fostering and creating a dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem within the Brazilian economy. Universities play a key role in unleashing new and innovative rounds of entrepreneurial activity and in creating and fostering a vibrant innovation ecosystem. The aim of the research project that gave rise to this paper was to identify, propose and validate a set of indicators for innovation and ST&I that identify the stage of maturity of the entrepreneurial university model in Brazilian universities. Our results shows that the indicators identified in the literature, proposed and validated using a questionnaire applied to the 68 best Brazilian universities can be used to underpin institutional innovation policies. Our results also strongly indicate that Brazilian universities are becoming vital players in fostering Brazil's innovation and technology ecosystem.

The objective of this article is to present a methodology proposal to subjective analysis of processes in Technology transfer of R&D institutions. We are looking for to identify "bottlenecks" in those processes based on mapping them in our structure of "facilitators". This structure was mounted based in the actual practices observed in Europe and North America institutions of R&D. One of the most important result of our research was the compilation of 275 rules referring to 54 facilitator distributed in 7 groups. This methodology was created so that the output was in form of a report, the Analysis Report. This report carry out the processes reengineered and recommendations capable of optimize the most important processes in hierarchical form. The methodological procedures consisted, basically, in documental analysis and participant observation

This study proposes a field study, based on a systematic literature review,about the applications and impacts of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) in thebiopharmaceutical sector. The world is facing a new industrial revolution thatis happening at a faster pace than the previous ones. The central idea is theintegration between the virtual and the real world through elements that willallow a greater degree of automation and digitization of processes Thefieldwork, carried out between July and December 2019, considered semi-structured interviews with managers of pharmaceutical companies orspecialists in the I4.0 theme. The interviews pointed out the need for thebiopharmaceutical sector to adapt to the concepts of I4.0 and identified itsmain benefits and barriers. The perceptions were considerably diversified,with the benefits in operational efficiency, productivity and quality being themost scored items. Regarding the main barriers, the most highlighted by theinterviewees were the need to break organ...

The authors would like to thank the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) for financial support of this work within the UTEN project. Our appreciation also goes to the technology transfer offices for their cooperation and effort in providing information and generously shared their time and experience with us and acknowledge the support from all the people at the IC2 Institute (Austin, Texas), as well as to Prof. Jose Manuel Mendonca at INESC TEC, and Prof. Aurora Teixeira from the University of Porto. We also acknowledge Ms. Francesca Lorenzini for her diligent remarks.

BACKGROUND: Organizational changes in the traditional work models demand studies on the management of the so called "Teleworking". OBJECTIVE: This research aims to analyse the teleworking management practices to subside organizations and leaders to improve their performance and enhance workers quality of life. METHODS: A survey was carried out with teleworkers to obtain their perception of the analyzed factors, using the survey monkey tool. The collected data were analyzed using Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). RESULTS: The validated model for the practices analysis is composed of the constructs: business management, physical and people infrastructure, leadership, self-esteem, and job satisfaction. Based on the analysis carried out, it is suggested that organizations establish organizational telework policies, follow government policies and provide communication and competence plans. Moreover, it is crucial providing technologies and support to them and develop people management practices in teleworking. Leaders must provide confidence, a teleworking culture, professional advancement, integration, well-being, negotiation of goals and a training plan. The teleworker's satisfaction is due to the sustainability related to the work model and its choice defined by personal motivation, balance between personal and professional life and a sense of belonging. CONCLUSIONS: All variables observed, linked to the constructs and validated, can be considered by managers to improve human resource management and obtain better productivity results.

Recomendações Genéricas Recomendações Específicas RG.1-Sistema de informação para TT RG.2-Reengenharia de processos e procedimentos internos RG.3-Medidas organizacionais RG.4-Unidade de missão RE.1-Plano estratégico para TT RE.2-Elaboração de um Manual de Procedimentos RE.3-Participação da UATEC e GrupUNAVE na reestruturação RE.4-Curso de Empreendedorismo de base tecnológica a todos os mestrandos e doutorandos RE.5-Criação de um canal de atendimento ao Empresário/Empreendedor centralizado e integrado com o SI e presente na Net RE.6-Desenvolvimento de um modelo de Plano de Comercialização para as tecnologias desenvolvidas na instituição Página 4 de 47

Thisarticleusesanoriginalthree-phaseapproachforempiricalassessmentandcomparativeevaluation oftheefficiencyofuniversitytechnologytransfer.Itisbasedonanalysisofinputsandoutputsofa disclosurephasefollowedbyavalue-addphaseandafinallicensephase,usingamultidimensional framework.TheobjectiveistofinduniversityTechnologyTransferOffice(TTO)efficiencyand effectivenesspatternsforeachphaseaswellasoverallTTprocesses.AnetworkDataEnvelopment Analysis(DEA)modelwasusedtoanalyzeanddescribethecomplicatedTToperationalprocesses usingAssociationofUniversityTechnologyManagersdatacollectedfrom90USuniversityTTOs fortheperiod2007-2013.ItwasconcludedthatthesampledTTOsweremostinefficientintheir value-add(2nd)phaseandthattheaverageoverallefficiencyaswellastheefficiencyofdisclosure (1st)andlicense(3rd)phasesdecreasedduringthelastfiveyearsofdataanalyzed.Inaddition,in linewithotherstudies,analysissupportsthecontentionthatthepresenceofmedicalschooldoesnot increaseTTefficiencyoreffectiveness.Thepresentresearch'scontributionsfocusonthreeareas: (1)AnalysingandmodellingTTOvalorizationandcommercializationprocesswithaUMLactivity diagramtoprovideaclearpictureofTTproceduresandprocesses;(2)Proposingathree-phaseDEA frameworkshowinginput/outputindicatorscloselyrelatedtoeachphaseofprocessesratherthan ablackboxorseparatedactivities;(3)OfferingastrategytoconductempiricalstudiesonTTO's operationalefficiencytherebyhelpingtobetterunderstandfutureresearchoperationalproblems.

The success of organizational processes is increasingly related to sustainable innovation. The concern with sustainable public purchases has been gaining strength over the years. However, several barriers are found to implementing this practice. At the same time, blockchain advances as technology part of the innovation of industry 4.0 and as a proposal to solve these difficulties. The study aimed to identify the perception of public procurement managers on the use of information systems with characteristic features of this technology, to reduce these barriers and elaborate a proposal for the use of blockchain in open innovation systems. The research developed is qualitative, quantitative and applied, being carried out through the application of a structured questionnaire to purchasing managers using the 92 prefectures of the State of Rio de Janeiro, located in Brazil, with subsequent analysis through descriptive statistics. The results of this work present relevant findings for public procurement through innovation and blockchain technology with the possibility of tracking the entire supply chain, allowing the verification of possible environmental and social damages such as the use of child or slave labor, the use of deforestation wood, counterfeit products, unethical agents, in addition to providing more transparency to the process of acquisition.