Sergio Salles-Filho

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)

Purpose The primary aim of this research is to understand the integration of scientific knowledge in foresight policy. By analyzing both foresight policy documents and their bibliographical references, the study seeks to comprehend how foresight has been embedded into strategic planning worldwide, identifying key trends and shifts in the foresight...

This research maps the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) policy and its scientific underpinnings. First, we analyzed the global AI policy landscape using the Overton policy documents database, which comprises millions of policy documents. Findings reveal a substantial increase in AI policy documents since 2018, with the USA, European Union...

Purpose Currently, foresight studies have been adapted to incorporate new techniques based on big data and machine learning (BDML), which has led to new approaches and conceptual changes regarding uncertainty and how to prospect future. The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of BDML on foresight practice and on conceptual changes in un...

Recebemos com entusiasmo esse livro que registra a continuidade dos estudos propositivos do Projeto Métricas, que se desloca, agora, para a pesquisa dos saberes e das práticas das instituições de ensino e pesquisa. Estão em plena execução estudos relativos aos fatores que condicionam os resultados de projetos de pesquisas, seus impactos científicos...

Purpose Knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms (KIE) strongly rely on scientific and strategic research and development (R&D) capabilities to achieve higher performance levels. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to disentangle the effects of scientific capabilities and strategic R&D on KIE performance; and how the constituent elements of these...

Funding agencies (FAs) have increasingly engaged in international cooperation agreements (ICAs) to encourage world-class research and achieve more promising outcomes in the context of increasing competition for research resources. While the benefits of International Research Collaboration are largely supported by literature, less attention was paid...

Aula apresentada na disciplina de Desenvolvimento da Agricultura Brasileira do curso de Geografia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas.

In current research evaluation models, monitoring and impact evaluation are extended beyond peer-reviewed articles to include Public Communication of Science and Technology activities. Through an online survey, we analyzed the perceptions of relevance and degree of application of the altmetric indicators for the PCST of 51 sampled Brazilian federal...

Recent events have reinforced the need to implement responsible research assessments to address different inequalities in science (e. g. gender, race, language). Funding agencies have a central role in mitigating or perpetuating inequities and can influence societal priorities and policies. Considering this background, we investigated how six FAs w...

O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar e discutir a governança da ciência, o que ela engloba e quais os desafios que hoje são mais importantes em âmbitos nacional e global. O tema é abordado sob duas dimensões: governança estrita, que examina os cânones internos do funcionamento da ciência; e governança ampliada, que olha para as interfaces e interaç...

This article analyzes a policy instrument that nurtures knowledge-intensive entrepreneur-ship in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The PIPE Program is a small-business innovation research run by The Sao Paulo Research Foundation since 1997. While prior literature has pointed out that firm-level heterogeneity is an important feature to consider when e...

Research gaps remain concerning how successful KIE ventures operate and what are their main drivers of superior performance (Fischer et al., 2022). So, our research question is: What are the influences of technical knowledge and strategic knowledge management on the performance of KIE firms? Our objective is to provide a comprehensive perspective o...

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...

This article explores the possibilities of reprising the potential surprise approach of Shackle’s framework as an approach for prospective, priority setting and decision-making process in Science, Technology, and Innovation (ST&I). These domains have been the focus of extensive studies that have promoted several analytical contributions, although i...

Knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) is a socioeconomic phenomenon that drives economic aggregate competitiveness and innovative capabilities in economies worldwide. However, while prior literature has significantly advanced in terms of identifying critical elements associated with the success of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial ventures,...

Context: dynamic and productive linkages between research organizations (ROs) and industry are actively spurred in advanced nations. Conversely, Latin American countries face significant challenges in fostering research-industry interactions. Solid models of research-industry cooperation are of particular interest to emerging economies such as Braz...

Resumo Executivo PIPE a. Apesar das evidências de diferentes avaliações, parte da literatura discute a eficácia real das políticas de promoção do KIE (knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship) em face da relevância econômica observada do empreendedorismo intensivo em conhecimento. Assim, são necessárias avaliações de impacto e exercícios de avaliação a...

Available as sample chapter at: https://ler.amazon.com.br/kp/embed?asin=B07VF8XD17&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_lb1MDbAJH8Z26 Este capítulo emprega a abordagem teórica da economia institucionalista evolucionária ao quadro analítico da Indicação Geográfica considerando a evolução endógena das instituições como apropriada para trata...

The Geographical Indication (GI) is legal protection of the exclusive use of geographical names of origin of differentiated products. GI's institutional evolution and its spread in the world had France as the protagonist. This is an organizational, market and institutional innovation of a distinct nature from the one often involving public agricult...

Developing countries face numerous challenges in the process of building science, technology, and research capacity; in particular, the formation and accumulation of skilled S&T workforce. The lack of organized and sustainable higher education options (Master and Doctoral programs), nonexistent or low-quality academic programs, and the absence of r...

Purpose This paper aims to understand, in the state of São Paulo academic environment, the differences between the profiles of academic entrepreneurs, nonacademic entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs. Design/methodology/approach The authors collected data from a more comprehensive research, whose objective was to evaluate the scholarship programm...

p>A gestão dos ativos intangíveis, principalmente das criações intelectuais, é pré-requisito para empresas que competem na economia do conhecimento. O objetivo deste manuscrito é apresentar uma proposta de modelo de gestão estratégica de Propriedade Intelectual (PI) associado a uma ferramenta computacional de apoio à decisão denominada SmartIP . O...

This manuscript provides an exploration of the professional trajectories of doctorate holders in an emergent economy. It presents an analysis of original data from more than 4000 PhDs in Brazil and examines it from the perspective of the country’s research and innovation situation. The manuscript is intended to address two main areas of interest: t...

Science, technology and innovation (ST&I) activities have been increasingly studied by systemic approaches focusing on the complexity of knowledge creation and appropriation and on its effects on society. Aligned with this perspective ST&I evaluation has progressively sought for multiple links between ST&I policy and society. As it is intuitively p...

Renewable energy based on the use of biofuels, although far from occupying an important share in the global energy matrix, is a reality in several countries. Among biofuels, ethanol is the one that has advanced most in the world, currently being an economical and technological feasible option. Brazil and the United States are both large producers a...

This article proposes a comprehensive framework for R&D and innovation project selection under uncertainty and subject to real-world constraints applicable to the Brazilian electricity sector, using a combination of integer programming formulation and a PROMETHEE-based method. The objective is to contribute to this domain by offering an approach su...

No Brasil, companhias atuantes no setor elétrico (geração, transmissão e distribuição – GTD) são obrigadas a investir pelo menos 1% de sua receita operacional líquida em pesquisa e desenvolvimento (P&D) e eficiência energética, obrigação que traz grandes desafios à gestão da pesquisa e da inovação. Inseridas em um setor tipicamente comprador de ino...

We investigated the extent to which different selection mechanisms for awarding scholarships varied in their short- and longer-term consequences in the perfor- mance of awardees in terms of scientific production. We conducted an impact evaluation study on undergraduate, master’s, and PhD research scholarships and compared two dif- ferent financial...

Este trabalho tem como objetivo identificar quais os espaços de autonomia e flexibilidade gerencial e organizacional dos institutos públicos de pesquisa (IPPs) no Brasil em face dos limites impostos por seu arcabouço legal, assim como os desdobramentos dessas condições para o cumprimento e o desempenho das missões institucionais. Para tal, foram bu...

O artigo propõe metodologia de avaliação ex-ante de projetos de P&D&I do setor elétrico, incorporada a uma ferramenta de análise multicritério, com foco em risco. A P&D do setor elétrico é regulada pela Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica (ANEEL) e obriga as empresas a investirem parte de sua Receita Operacional Líquida (ROL) em P&D&I. A imposição...

This paper presents the main findings of the evaluation of a research program for early-career doctorate holders in Brazil. The São Paulo State Research Foundation implemented the Young Investigator Award Program in 1996. At that time the number of PhDs was growing in Brazil, and doctorate holders, PhD programs and research jobs were concentrated i...

Este trabalho tem por objeto discutir as políticas públicas relacionadas às Indicações Geográficas (IG) tomando os casos dos estados brasileiros da Bahia e de São Paulo os quais, apesar de possuírem produtos com tipicidade regional, mostram inexpressivo reconhecimento de IG em comparação com outras unidades da federação. O objetivo do trabalho foi...

Evaluation has become a regular practice in the management of science, technology and innovation (ST&I) programs. Several methods have been developed to identify the results and impacts of programs of this kind. Most evaluations that adopt such an approach conclude that the interventions concerned, in this case ST&I programs, had a positive impact...

Adding market value to a former by-product or waste must be an outcome of what is being called an eco-innovation. Vinasse is an important by-product of sugarcane processing in the manufacture of ethanol in Brazil. Until the 1970s, the main destinations of vinasse were surface waters and sacrifice areas. The fabulous augmentation in production of th...

This article shows that Brazilian companies in the electric power sector are increasingly building technological paths, materialized through their efforts in R&D&I activities. It analyzes the dynamics of technological innovation in this sector, considering its motivation to innovate, organizational strategies (competitive and technological), and th...

In 2000 it became mandatory to the Brazilian electricity companies to invest in research, development and innovation (RDI). These investments are performed by firms and regulated by the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (ANEEL). Since then companies have sought ways to cope with this obligation creating internal structures and managerial proc...

We investigated the extent to which different selection mechanisms for awarding scholarships varied in their short- and longer-term consequences in the performance of awardees in terms of scientific production. We conducted an impact evaluation study on undergraduate, master’s, and PhD research scholarships and compared two different financial sour...

This paper discusses the institutional reorganization that has culminated in new designs for the management models of Public Research Institutes (PRIs), comparing the experiences of four PRIs in the agricultural sector to identify common elements and differences in processes, flows and policies. The focus is to improve research and innovation manag...

This paper discusses corporate governance concepts and practices with the aim of identifying elements that can be added to the governance model for private nonprofit organizations termed social organizations in Brazilian law. The analysis is based on a case study of five social organizations, all linked to the Ministry of Science, Technology & Inno...

RESUMO Este trabalho objetivou identificar em que medida a Lei de Informática (LI) levou ao aumento da densidade produtiva e tecnológica da indústria de tecnologias da informação e comunicação (TICs) no Brasil e à ampliação de sua participação no mercado internacional. Foram aplicados questionários eletrônicos em empresas usuárias da LI e Instituiç...

The article discusses the specificities of science and technology development and innovation processes in organizational arena and their implications for planning and management. It proposes that ST&I processes must be planned and managed as evolutionary processes defined by targeted attitudes to search routines and an understanding of the selectiv...

O presente artigo contempla uma discussao sobre o processo de catching-up do sistema brasileiro de pesquisa agricola, com destaque para a nova institucionalidade que vem sendo criada na pesquisa e na transferencia das novas tecnologias geradas no processo de melhoramento vegetal. Atencao especial e dada a articulacao entre os atores publicos e priv...

This paper addresses the evaluation of Multi-User Equipment Program (EMU), FAPESP. Created in 1998, EMU Program was conceived for purchase expensive scientific instruments for a group of researchers. GEOPI methodology was adopted with quasi-experimental approach as well as multivariate analysis. The control group consisted of projects denied. Onlin...

This article discusses whether a globally competitive high-tech firm is sustainable without being associated with a sufficiently dense sectoral innovation system. It focuses on Embraer and hence on the Brazilian aeronautics industry. Despite not benefiting from a highly subsidized process for technological and financial modernization, Embraer has b...

São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP, has implemented an award program as a way to develop new research centers and to provide more opportunity to recent doctors, or productive doctors without regular job position, the “Young Investigator in Emerging Centers” (YIEC). This paper intends to present main results from an external evaluation of this pr...

Evaluation of research results and impacts is a topic of growing interest to public and private organizations worldwide. Indeed, it can be said that evaluation initiatives are a top priority for many R&D institutions if they are to assure social legitimation. Assuming that the innovation process is uncertain, complex, linked to social and technical...

Evaluation of research results and impacts is a topic of growing interest to public and private organizations worldwide. Indeed, it can be said that evaluation initiatives are a top priority for many R&D institutions if they are to assure social legitimation. Assuming that the innovation process is uncertain, complex, linked to social and technical...

This paper analyzes trends in the evolution of public research organizations (PROs) with special emphasis on the Brazilian case. Given the central role in global competitiveness played by policies of fostering innovation, PROs are increasingly stimulated to restructure themselves in order to participate in the innovation process. This is a global p...

A economia da inovação tecnológica (ou a economia da tecnologia), ramo da economia que muito se desenvolveu nos últimos quarenta anos, tem deixado em segundo plano as questões relativas à inovação tecnológica na agricultura. Apesar de estudos seminais como este de Theodore Schultz, que ora apresentamos aos leitores da RBI, ou mesmo de publicações d...

Este artigo analisa a evolução organizacional de um instituto público de pesquisa tecnológica, o Instituto de Tecnologia de Alimentos (Ital) por meio de um estudo de caso, num período de 10 anos. Aplica pela primeira vez os conceitos de modelos institucional e gerencial. Por modelo institucional entende-se a evolução das características jurídicas q...

This paper aims at an analysis of the intellectual property policy in the health field by emphasizing the program of production and distribution of antiretrovirals and the generic drugs market, also reviewing the process of articulation and implementation of the intellectual property policy in this sector. From a methodological viewpoint, the paper...

This paper aims at an analysis of the intellectual property policy in the health field by emphasizing the program of production and distribution of antiretrovirals and the generic drugs market, also reviewing the process of articulation and implementation of the intellectual property policy in this sector. From a methodological viewpoint, the paper...

This article presents a methodological proposal and an empirical validation for the assessment of ST&I programs, particularly for choosing indicators and metrics from a multidimensional perspective. Its key feature is the construction of indicators designed to apprehend the wide array of characteristics displayed by the many different types of inno...

This article presents a comparative analysis of the intellectual property rights regimes pertaining to plant breeding activities in Brazil and Argentina, highlighting the main differences and similarities, as well as the impacts of these regimes on the respective national seed markets. Different policies adopted by public agricultural research orga...

This article discusses the recent Brazilian strategy in the field of intellectual property rights applied to new varieties and seeds. Intellectual property is here understood as an economic tool to articulate and to coordinate the economic and technical agents involved in the process of development and diffusing of new varieties and seeds. The arti...

O trabalho apresenta uma análise da capacitação dos centros de pesquisa clínica brasileiros para realizar ensaios voltados para a avaliação de medicamentos e vacinas, como suporte ao desenvolvimento de novos produtos. Utiliza bases de dados públicas para a quantificação dos ensaios realizados e entrevistas com patrocinadores e centros de pesquisa c...

This paper presents an analysis of the capability of Brazilian clinical research centers to evaluate drugs and vaccines in the process developing new products. It uses public databases to quantify the trials, and interviews with sponsors and research centers to assess the competencies involved in their performance. It concludes that Brazilian capab...

This article discusses conceptually the economic dynamics of innovationand knowledge appropriation in general and its application to agricultural R&D.It deals with intellectual property as an institution that facilitates the control,valorization and circulation of assets based on innovations. Using the neoschumpeterianconceptual framework, the arti...

As condições institucionais para a competitividade na sociedade do conhecimento são dinâmicas e estão em contínua reconstrução, sendo a capacidade de inovação tecnológica um de seus fatores determinantes. O elevado grau de incerteza e o alto custo associados à inovação tecnológica são desafios para a sustentação dos padrões tradicionais de investim...

A economia da inovação tecnológica (ou a economia da tecnologia), ramo da economia que muito se desenvolveu nos últimos quarenta anos, tem deixa-do em segundo plano as questões relativas à inovação tecnológica na agricultu-ra. Apesar de estudos seminais como este de Theodore Schultz, que ora apre-sentamos aos leitores da RBI, ou mesmo de publicaçõe...

This article deals with questions related to financing and investment, focusingthe problem of innovation financing at both the conceptual and the practicallevels. At first, the paper discusses some concepts that are useful for explaining thenecessity of promoting investments in science, technology and innovation. Theemphasis is on how the concepts...

No último número da Revista Brasileira de Inovação apresentamos excertos do I PBDCT com o intuito de mostrar como alguns temas referentes à interação entre ciência e tecnologia e o desenvolvimento nacional têm sido recorrentes no debate brasileiro nos últimos 30 anos. Não se trata apenas de apontar que temos tido dificuldades em resolver questões j...

Neste número da Revista Brasileira de Inovação chegamos ao final desta série de três publicações que recuperam a memória de algumas das idéias fundamentais do planejamento de ciência e tecnologia no Brasil, expressas nos três Planos Básicos de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (PBDCT). É espantosa, para os dias de hoje, a coerência e o alinh...

Ao tempo em que a política de ciência e tecnologia amplia seu espaço no cenário nacional, abrindo perspectivas e transformando atitudes é, por muitos motivos, recomendável lançar um olhar sobre a história recente do País. As apostas no futuro que hoje estamos fazendo não precisam ser explicadas com base no passado (e não seria difícil analisá-las t...

Grande parte dos medicamentos que estão no mercado originam-se de produtos naturais, em especial, de plantas. Entre as vinte drogas mais vendidas nos EUA em 1988, apenas sete não derivavam diretamente de produtos naturais. Ainda assim, estes participaram em algum momento da história famacológica dessas drogas. Naturalmente, o Brasil, com sua enorme...

This article proposes an interpretation of the process of technological innovation in agriculture. We begin with a criticism to the idea of agriculture as a particular environment in economic analysis. We argue that some dynamic concepts from economics of innovation, especially as seen by the evolutionary literature, can be used as an adequate theo...

RESUMO Nos últimos quinze anos, as instituições públicas de pesquisa, nacionais e internacionais, vêm enfrentando diversos desafios: redução de recursos financeiros, surgimento de novos campos do conhecimento, alterações nas políticas que definem o papel do Estado, riscos e oportunidades decorrentes de maior abertura para o ambiente externo, entre...

Este texto tem por objetivo apresentar a abordagem de technological foresight2, crescentemente utilizada em vários países como instrumento para a alocação de fundos públicos de C&T, para definição de priorida- des de pesquisa e para melhorar a articulação das organizações de pes- quisa com as redes de inovação e o setor produtivo. São discutidas su...

Resumo Os métodos de avaliação de impactos de programas tecnológicos revelam-se como ferramenta para a orientação de atividades de pesquisa e participação no processo de inovação. Nesse artigo são apresentados os resultados obtidos no escopo da elaboração e da aplicação do método ESAC para a avaliação integrada de impactos de programas tecnológicos...

RESUMO O presente artigo trata de questões relativas aos determinantes do financia- mento da inovação. Ele traz tanto uma abordagem conceitual quanto prática. No primeiro plano procura-se, com base nos conceitos de investimento e finan- ciamento, subsídios para se compreender os determinantes da decisão de investi- mento em geral e em inovação em p...

Caixa Postal 6152 Campinas-SP Brasil CEP 13081-970 E-mail: sallesfi@ige.unicamp.br Nowadays, technological innovation is one of the most important challenges not only to firms, but also to public and private research institutes. These organizations must develop conditions and capabilities which allow them to sustain and improve their position in an...

Introdução O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar os principais instrumentos de incentivo e de financiamento ao Sistema de Inovação Brasileiro recentemente criados (de 1990 ao início da década de 2000) e evidenciar seu alcance e limitações. Este período foi escolhido porque os avanços obtidos em termos da política e dos instrumentos indicam que houve...

Este é um artigo de análise e opinião sobre trajetórias e agendas de institutos e centros de pesquisa no país (ICPs). Ele trata das mudanças em curso nos ambientes nos quais os ICPs se inserem, mostrando que há um cenário cada vez mais complexo e competitivo para essas organizações. De fato, o sistema de C,T&I hoje acolhe um conjunto muito diversif...