Análise do Desempenho em Ciência e Tecnologia de Instituições Públicas: um Panorama das Instituições Públicas de Ensino Superior do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The investments made in science, technology and innovation and personnel training have acquired a growing importance in the development of a country. In Brazil, despite the progress achieved, it is important to create a scientific culture in society and the implementation of public policies that prioritize science, technology and innovation as propellants elements of competitiveness and wealth creation. In this context, we highlight the National Innovation System, whose main actors are firms, as users or suppliers of technology and investing in R &D; government, represented by public agencies formulators and executing of policy, and public institutions with more or less government support, such as universities and research institutes. This study investigated the relationship between investments in research and development and techno-scientific production, as well as their influence on the efficiency of science and technology in public research institutions. To achieve the objective of the study, the work was divided into introduction, three chapters, which present intentions that fall within the overall objective, and conclusion. The first chapter, of exploratory nature, expos an panorama of international publications on Science, Technology and Public Research Institutes, conducted by bibliometric analysis, identifying the most productive authors, the most cited, the main sources of publications, institutions more productive, the representativeness of the countries in the production on the topic and evolution of scientific production in the area in recent centuries. In the next chapter, emphasis was given to the Brazilian scenario, analyzing the relationship between public investment to the progress of science and technology and technical- scientific production of the country between 2002 and 2010. This was a descriptive study, adopting a quantitative approach by correlation analysis. The last chapter, in a more specific context of S&T, aimed to analyze the efficiency of Science and Technology of public universities and federal institutes located in the state of Rio de Janeiro to address the factors related to the development of Science and Technology. In this chapter, the research presented in a descriptive study with a quantitative approach through data envelopment analysis - DEA, to evaluate the extent of the relative efficiency of each Decision Making Unit, ranking them according to efficiency, and setting targets for improvement of production of inefficient units. The analysis of efficiency of public research institutions can be a tool used for improving the implementation of public resource and management. The study also provides a research agenda for continuation of investigations.