Abstract

BRISOLLA, Sandra N.. La inserción social de la Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp). Rev. iberoam. cienc. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2005, vol.2, n.4, pp.97-123. ISSN 1850-0013.

This article deals with the interrelation between public university and technological and economic development, analyzing the case of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp). Created in the middle of the 1960's, Unicamp was designed to meet the goals of a national plan aimed at achieving Brazil's modernization. With that end, it contracted high level professors and researchers, and focused its research activities on areas considered as strategic for the country's development. So, Unicamp established successful links with big state firms from various sectors, whereas it addressed the social needs of its region. The article reviews these processes along the decades of 1970, 1980 and 1990, and argues that the possibilities of success of initiatives such as Unicamp depend on the coordination at the national level of policies aimed at orienting the academic supply toward the demand of R&D of the big firms, as well as toward social investments.

Keywords : Technology transfer; Higher education; University-industry-government relationships.

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