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University of Brasilia’s Potential for Bioeconomy Services and Innovation

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Bioeconomy is an emerging concept that has been more and more integrated into discussions concerning sustainable development. Such a theme became one of Brazil’s main strategies for science, technology and innovation, spurring several initiatives seeking to better understand the country’s bioeconomic capacity. The present study was one of several conducted in Distrito Federal attempting to assess the state and its surrounding region’s economic strengths and weaknesses, part of Projeto Brasília 2060. The aim of this study was to perform a descriptive analysis of the University of Brasília’s potential in the field of Bioeconomy. We conducted semi-structured interviews with respondents from 74 laboratories from four different institutes/faculties of the Darcy Ribeiro Campus. Our results showed that 48 laboratories had the latent capacity to start/expand activities related to technological innovation or service provision to firms, government or society. Most laboratories seemed more inclined to provide services than technological innovation. Using the content analysis methodology, we were able to detect six categories of obstacles that hinder UnB’s potential to Bioeconomy.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the researchers from UnB’s Darcy Ribeiro Campus for their availability and disposition to contribute to this work. This study was funded by Projeto Brasilia 2060, executed by the Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology (IBICT).

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  1. Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia—IBICT, Brasília, DF, 70070-912, Brazil

    Flávio Duque Estrada Soares Pereira & Wagner Augusto Fischer

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  1. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UNICAMP, Limeira, São Paulo, Brazil

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  2. School of Technology, UNICAMP, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Rangel Arthur

  3. Divisão de Engenharia Eletrônica, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

    Osamu Saotome

  4. Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicada, Lima, Peru

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  5. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil

    Ana Carolina Borges Monteiro

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Pereira, F.D.E.S., Fischer, W.A. (2021). University of Brasilia’s Potential for Bioeconomy Services and Innovation. In: Iano, Y., Arthur, R., Saotome, O., Kemper, G., Borges Monteiro, A.C. (eds) Proceedings of the 5th Brazilian Technology Symposium. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 202. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57566-3_49

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