The research and production of knowledge in higher education: a case study on UFSCar

• Grant number: 17/13266-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2017
• End date: December 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education
• Principal Investigator: João dos Reis Silva Júnior
• Grantee: Everton Henrique Eleutério Fargoni
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the production of knowledge mediated by research groups RGD/CNPq and to understand the social functions of these works developed in the institution. The objective of this proposal is the search for an understanding of the role of academic intellectuals who carry out these researches and the relationship of the commercialization of the science produced to the society and the economy of the country. This understanding raises the observation of the development and results of these studies on the tendency of academic productivity as a resource of Brazilian economic advance. In this context, it is sought to verify the inductive power of the financing of corporations in the world in the departments of chemistry and materials engineering and the possible contribution to the approximation of the academic institutions with the productive sector. In this selection will be used criteria such as the grade and level of the group within the Directory of Research Groups, graduate programs notes 6 and 7, which have participation of researchers from national and international organizations of the economic sphere. (AU)