The establishment of a technology transfer office: the experience at Fiocruz
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https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v10i4.1086Keywords:
science and technology institutions, technology transfer office, Lei de Inovação (Innovation Law), patents, technological partnership.Abstract
The Lei de Inovação (Innovation Law) represented a governmental initiative to create an enabling environment for innovation in Brazil. Its rules affected definitively the insertion map of national academic and scientific institutions (ICT of Portuguese instituições científicas e tecnológicas) in this process. Among its strategies, it sought to induce the organizational adjustment of the ICT, requiring the establishment of technology transfer offices (NIT, of Portuguese núcleos de inovação tecnológica). Furthermore, the new Legal Framework for Science, Technology and Innovation, recently sanctioned, may represent a game changer in the Brazilian ICT performance, increasing their protagonism. Given the importance of the NIT in this area, as well the inherent complexity of its structuring process and the operation of these offices, this article presents a study that looks into the case of the NIT at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, known as Fiocruz. Based on the identification of the strategies for implementing that NIT and their results, we mapped out the main challenges and guidelines, so that providing a reflection able to contribute to the implementation and consolidation of the NIT at Brazilian ICT.
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