Manuais de propriedade intelectual e de boas práticas de proteção das criações da Ufopa

Abstract

This work had as its main objective the elaboration and availability of the Manuals of Intellectual Property and of Good Practices of Protection of Creations of Ufopa, which will be able to serve as instruments of easier and more efficient access to basic information related to intellectual property and the main conducts that need to be adopted and shared by members of the UFOPA academic community and its institutional partners. For this purpose, exploratory and descriptive research was used, with the use of a quali-quantitative approach and procedures of a bibliographical, documental and case study nature. Thus, after collecting, organizing, tabulating and interpreting the results, it was possible to identify and select both the basic information on intellectual property contained in laws and other scientific and technical publications and the conduct provided for in Ufopa regulations, which were compared and integrated with the good practices implemented by UFMG, Unicamp and UFCG and with the other actions identified in the literature, resulting in the list of basic information and good practices that were incorporated into the manuals mentioned above. In addition, it was found: that the institutional culture of Ufopa is still not oriented to the protection of knowledge and creations with technological and innovation potential; that the vision, values, PDI and other guiding institutional documents of this entity still do not act as elements that induce the process of spreading the culture of protection and appreciation of intellectual property; that the business model adopted by UFOPA still does not foresee in its processes the protection and management of intellectual property, innovation, appreciation of high-impact technological production and technology transfer to society, a fact that can cause obstacles to the implementation and consolidation of the Intellectual Property and Innovation Policy of this ICT and to achieve the results envisaged by such institutional policies; that there is a need to institutionalize and implement the Secrecy and Confidentiality Policy, the Creation Maintenance and Abandonment Policy, the Conflict of Interests Policy and the Policy for Sharing Results and Ownership of Creations with Institutional Partners and the definition of situations in which the patrimonial right over intellectual works produced by members of the academic community will be owned by Ufopa and/or the author; and that Ufopa, in order to promote the reconciliation and combination of the culture of protection of intellectual property and innovation with the institutional culture, needs to institutionalize and implement strategic educational, communication, incentive and recognition actions, the creation of internal innovation networks and the structuring and professionalization of the AIT. Finally, it was also noticed that it is necessary for the construction of the AIT Virtual Platform to be completed and to present well-structured, optimized and interactive pages and a simple, functional and intuitive navigability, considering that this electronic portal can be used as the main channel of communication, guidance and interaction between AIT and its users.