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University-Industry Collaboration from the Perspective of a Spin-off: A Case Study

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Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IJCIEOM 2022)

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This study aims to describe the perceptions and perspectives regarding the University-Industry collaboration of a spin-off developed by the technology park of a Federal University in Brazil. Initially, a literature review was conducted to identify facilitating aspects and barriers in UIC, and then a case study was conducted. This way, by means of an interview supported by a semistructured questionnaire, the facilitating aspects and barriers that they observe and experience during this process of development, collaboration, and technology transfer were addressed, as well as the positive and negative points of this process. In addition, the spin-offs perspectives related to the future of the contributions between universities and firms were analyzed. As a result of the case study, the need to further study and deepen the perspective of a new developing company, with the purpose of creating ways to eliminate obstacles so that the collaboration process occurs in a more fluid manner, thus providing greater technological development between the parties.

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de Sousa Leite Nascimento, L., Martins, L.L., do Nascimento Gambi, L. (2022). University-Industry Collaboration from the Perspective of a Spin-off: A Case Study. In: López Sánchez, V.M., Mendonça Freires, F.G., Gonçalves dos Reis, J.C., Costa Martins das Dores, J.M. (eds) Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. IJCIEOM 2022. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 400. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14763-0_27

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