ESSAYS ON INNOVATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE BRAZILIAN NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM.
National Innovation Systems, IFES, Universities, Innovation, Basic Research, Applied Research, Incubators, Technology-based Incubators.
This thesis brings together a set of articles that aim to characterize and discuss the particularities of the innovation process in Brazil under the theoretical framework of National Innovation Systems in a neo-Schumpeterian and post-Keynesian approach to innovation. The first chapter, composed of an article with a theoretical focus, revisits the concepts related to the theoretical framework of National Innovation Systems, in order to analyze and characterize the specificities of the Brazilian NIS, based on this theoretical framework and relying on studies of particular cases in the literature. Having assessed the particularities of the Brazilian case, recognized the dominant role of the state and highlighted the importance of the vertex represented by the Federal Institutes of Higher Education as the locus of basic and applied research, the second chapter presents an article of a historical nature, which revisits the genesis of the Brazilian university in a timeline format, extracting the historical elements that still make up the dynamic functioning of this very important vertex today. Finally, the third chapter, which is empirical; with greater knowledge of the historical and theoretical elements of the Brazilian NIS, and taking into account the challenge posed by the issue of integration between the NIS vertices presented in the literature, analyzes the important relationship between the company and university vertices by investigating the relationship between incubator companies and universities in a case study carried out at the University of Brasilia.