PATTERNS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESEARCH GROUPS AND PRODUCTIVE SECTOR IN BRAZIL: AN MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF RELATIONSHIP TYPES BY FIELDS OF KNOWLEDGES

Abstract

This article aims to develop an analysis about universities-firms interaction in the Brazilian national system of innovation from the view of academic research group, disaggregated in different in knowledge areas. Some indexes are defined by a principal component analysis (PCA), comprising the interactions types in order to identify similarities and differences among the research areas which covers particularities of the Brazilian national system of innovation. The analysis shows that the types of interactions are very different to the research groups in Brazil and vary according to the area of knowledge in which they are inserted. The result shows that interaction in Brazil assumes many types and is also heterogeneous to different sciences. This point helps to qualify national system of science and technology besides particularities and guides policies that sire virtuous cycles.