A interiorização das universidades federais e os arranjos produtivos locais : o caso da Unidade Acadêmica de Garanhuns (UAG/UFRPE)

Abstract

A remarkable fact in the last decade in Brazilian educational policy is the more active role of the state with the expansion and internalization of Federal Universities. Attention desserves to the interest of the federal government to expand the campuses to municipalities that include Local Productive Arrangements (APLs ). Given this, it realizes that there is an important intersection between the policies of expansion of public higher education with the encouragement of the Local Productive Arrangements. More recent studies on clusters proposes to carry out its investigation in the light of a systemic language of Arrangement and Local Productive and Innovative System, which emphasize innovation and interactive learning as factors of economic efficiency and source of sustained competitiveness of clusters. The assumptions of the study consider the University one of the actors who play important contribution to learning and innovation in APL. Thus, this dissertation proposes to analyze the contributions of the implementation of the Academic Campus in Garanhuns (UAG/UFRPE) for the processes of learning and innovation on milk and derivatives APL of Garanhuns, from the theoretical concept developed by RedeSist on Arrangements and Production Systems and innovative Places, which is based on neoschumpeteriana approach of the innovation system. To conduct this research was used the observational method, applied scripts of semi-structured interviews with the actors involved and resorted to literature searches and analysis of official documents available by agencies and federal, state and municipal institutions. The data collected in this study reveals the shortcomings of UAG/UFRPE, as their role in teaching, research and extension, for an even more effective role of the University in order to be an important base of support in the learning and innovation process in milk and derivatives APL of Garanhuns.