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Handbook of Research on Emerging Technologies for Effective Project Management
Group of researchers and students who organize themselves around one or more lines of research in a field of knowledge, to develop scientific research.
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Information Management for the University-Enterprise Interaction: Considerations From the Research Groups Directory of the CNPQ in Brazil
Morjane Armstrong Santos de Miranda (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil), Sérgio Maravilhas-Lopes (IES-ICS, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil), Ernani Marques dos Santos (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil), Antonio Eduardo de Albuquerque Junior (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Brazil), Daniella Barbosa Silva (Faculdade de Tecnologia e Ciências, Brazil), and Platini Fonseca (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9993-7.ch012
Abstract
This chapter analyzes the importance of Information Management for the phenomenon of University-Enterprise (U-E) interaction, based on the Directory of Research Groups (DGP) in Brazil, of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). The methodology used consisted in analyzing, by the empirical-analytic research and descriptive-analytical approach, the data available on this database. The data is about the activities of the research groups of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), interacting with companies from 2002 to 2010. Results show information management is important for this occurrence because it contributes to the recognition of interest and the conditions of interaction of the actors, enhancing the transfer of knowledge and technologies.
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