Departamento de Política Científica e Tecnológica
Global Systems Resilience and Pandemic Disease—A Challenge for S&T Governance
This chapter examines the governance of health technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic and reflects on three interrelated challenges that need to be addressed in future assessment approaches for achieving systemic resilience: problems of scale, trust and politics. The chapter focuses on digital surveillance technologies and vaccines, two cornerstones in the efforts to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2 around the globe.
Grupo do IG elabora planejamento estratégico da ESALQ
Uma equipe do Laboratório de Estudos sobre a Organização da Pesquisa e da Inovação da Unicamp (Lab-GEOPI) acaba de finalizar o planejamento estratégico da Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz" (ESALQ), uma das maiores e mais antigas Unidades da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), que fica em Piracicaba.
How much does a Ph.D. scholarship program impact an emerging economy research performance?
This paper presents an impact evaluation of scholarships, within the Brazilian context, on the scientific performance of Ph.D. holders. The objective is to measure the scholarly production of beneficiaries from FAPESP’s (São Paulo Research Foundation) Ph.D. Scholarship Program against unsuccessful applicants. The studied population includes all the individuals who applied for Ph.D. scholarships between 2003 and 2017 and were either granted or rejected by FAPESP. Our evaluation employed a quasi-experimental with ex post facto design.
How Transformative Business Model Renewal Leads to Sustained Exploratory Business Model Innovation in incumbents: Insights from a System Dynamics Analysis of Case Studies
The digital era and mounting sustainability pressures have reinforced incumbents’ need to respond to radical innovation through business model innovation. Despite advancements in the literature on incumbent business model innovation, there are still open debates regarding strategies for achieving systematic innovation and poor integration between the literature on managing multiple business models and the strategic management of business model innovation.
Identifying necessary conditions to deep-tech entrepreneurship
Abstract
Purpose: This paper aims to address which resources provided by an entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) are necessary for deep technology entrepreneurship.
Institutional framework and the advance of electromobility: the case of South America
This article describes the types of policies deployed for the advancement of electromobility in South America: Argentina-Buenos Aires, Brazil-São Paulo, Chile-Santiago, and Colombia-Bogotá. The selected cases validate the importance of institutional thickness to transition initiatives of sustainability. Thus, we have active and reactive territories about electromobility transition.
