DESENVOLVIMENTO REGIONAL BASEADO NO CONHECIMENTO: a interação Universidade-Empresa em um hub de inovação na percepção dos gestores envolvidos

Abstract

The innovation system dealt with here is focused on the analysis of joint actions of an academic, commercial, industrial and service nature carried out between universities and companies as objectives of knowledge-based regional development. The university-company relationship is a strategy to increase innovation through the exchange of knowledge. There has been a considerable increase in these relationships, due to a combination of influences on industries and universities. The common path towards the base of economic development is built from the creation of an innovative region, which has the capacity to renew itself technologically based on its academic base. An innovation hub is a structure formed by companies and educational institutions, called verticals, with the purpose of institutional, local and/or regional development based on knowledge. This study aims to analyze the importance and influence of an innovation hub on the University/Company interaction with knowledge-based regional development objectives. To meet this objective, a qualitative research was carried out. The methodology used during the study was to carry out semi-structured interviews applied to managers of a university in the south of Minas Gerais and to representatives of companies, both linked to an innovation hub, in addition to the bibliographic review, based on bibliographic research, articles and theses, internet sites e. The analyzes of the collected data occurred through the techniques of content and lexical analysis. In academic terms, the study deepened the understanding of the topic of regional development based on knowledge and its dynamics between universities and companies. In the social context, it was observed that the innovation hub directly influences the local and regional scope.