Política pública de parques tecnológicos no Brasil: um modelo para avaliação de programa

Abstract

Technological parks are mechanisms of the technological innovation process, as they have the ability to promote the development of companies from ideas and technologies generated in teaching and research institutions. In order to advance the improvement of these instruments, this study proposes a model for evaluation of the National Program to Support Business Incubators and Science Parks (PNI). From the literature review, it is presented the concept of innovation, what they are and what is expected from the Technology Based Companies - TBCs, and what is a technology park, sometimes called business park, research park, innovation center. Tools are presented to assess the efficiency and impact of technology parks, and built quality indicators to evaluate and improve the PNI design and measure the effectiveness of this instrument, in particular its impact on generation of knowledge transfer and technology between science and technology institutions and the business sector and the consequent transformation of this knowledge into technological innovation. The methodology is built from the answers to specific questions that evaluate public policies in four areas: 1. The optimal allocation of resources (taken under the Federal Government agents); 2. The efficiency and effectiveness in resource management (carried out in the technology parks management level); 3. The impact of the program (estimated from the results of resident TBCs in technology parks); and 4. The improvement of national support policy for technology parks.