Management and perception of research network: a view from National Clinical Research Network in teaching hospitals

Abstract

The management of network research is commonly associated with the improvement in the structural domain, while in turn the perception of research deal with the need for including a wider view, involving the directions and the values of technological and economic advances. These questions are rarely discussed – something which tends to proceed – due to organizational performance and dissemination of knowledge. The investigation presented here is an explanatory and analytical case study, with qualitative and quantitative approaches, using questionnaires answered by members of the Rede Nacional de Pesquisa Clínica em Hospitais de Ensino (National network of clinical research in teaching hospitals) and interviews with them and with managers of science and technology.for health. As a result, it is argued that the relationships developed between researchers, through the research, are those which offer the highest level of development and, in fact, the instance for collaborations which feed the learning and provide an acquisition of status or legitimacy.