Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: RENATA VIEIRA GUEDES DA SILVA

ACADEMIC SPIN-OFF AS A MECHANISM FOR TRANSFERRING TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION FROM THE UNIVERSITY 

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Spin-off; Technology transfer; entrepreneurial university

The growing demand from the population in Brazil to understand solutions that can provide a
better quality of life for the population, property security, food security, biotechnologies that
facilitate the detection of diseases and generate protection as well as solutions that can positively
affect the continuity Life under the earth are essential factors for the development of new lines of
research as well as the continuity of existing ones. The university plays a fundamental role in the
country's scientific and technological development, being the main promoter of new technologies.
The creation of academic spin-offs, which is understood as a company created within the
university based on the exploration of scientific and technological innovations, as well as patents,
new utility models and which use the knowledge developed by researchers during their academic
responsibilities, becomes be a need to demonstrate the positive return to society from direct
public investment in research. With this, and within the agricultural sector, which has grown
significantly in Brazil after the COVID 19 pandemic and, with this, the use of technologies has
been growing significantly with a specialized increase in civil satellites, remotely piloted model
aircraft (RPAs) and autonomous field robots. Therefore, this dissertation presents a case study
that guides the implementation of entrepreneurial university practices within an academic spin-off
focused on AI applied to precision agriculture.