Condicionantes da geração de conhecimento nas universidades brasileiras: uma análise do período 2003-2011

Abstract

Studies on the scientific and technological production are important because they allow the mapping of its determinants, helping leaders of educational institutions and funding agencies in their decision making. The Brazilian scientific and technological university has grown substantially in the 2001-2011 period. The number of scientific publications increased 121.4% and the number of patent applications 1211.3%. . In this work we evaluated the relation between the university scientific-technological production and its inputs, with the observation unit as the Brazilian higher education institutions. The main inputs used as explanatory variables in this study were the age of the universities, the proportion of students from each educational institution, received investments, the proportion of teachers by students enrolled in graduate programs and the number of graduate programs in large areas of knowledge. Econometric models for count data are used, as the Negative Binomial and Negative Binomial Zero inflated , as well as the negative binomial model of fixed effects. The main results show that the main determinants of Brazilian scientific and technological are: the size of the university, its public nature, the ratio of teachers and students graduate and total investments and research support.