Agencia de Inovacao

Abstract Fire stations (FS) are typically non-uniformly distributed across space and their service area is defined based on administrative boundaries. Since the location of FS may considerably influence the readiness and the effectiveness of the provided services, national and regional governments need research-based information to adequately plan where to establish firefighting facilities. In this study, we propose a method to reconfigure the fire stations layout using spatial point process models, clustering and space partitioning. First, modeling fire intensity variation across space throught a point process model enables to replicate the process independently by simulation. Subsequently, for each simulation, the k-means algorithm is used to define a sitting location, minimizing the total within distance between the fire occurrences and the new position. This method allows to obtain a set of locations from which the respective distribution is infered. Assuming a bivariate normal spatial distribution, we further define confidence sitting regions. Ultimately, new FS service areas are defined by Voronoi tesselation. To exemplify the application of the method, we apply it to reconfigure the fire station layout in Aveiro, Portugal.

Por causa da intensificação de parcerias entre Instituição Científica, Tecnológica e de Inovação (ICT) e empresas, por meio dos Núcleos de Inovação Tecnológica (NIT), surge a necessidade de estabelecimento de mecanismos institucionais que respondam por essa interação. Nesse sentido, foram analisados os processos relacionados à área de transferência de tecnologia da Coordenação de Extensão Tecnológica e Inovação (COETI), na qual, a partir do fluxo do processo adotado, foi possível identificar as principais lacunas, os gargalos e as dificuldades encontradas, em especial, no processo de transferência de tecnologia para o setor produtivo. Foi realizada uma revisão bibliográfica desenvolvida com base em materiais publicados em revistas e em periódicos relacionados ao tema da pesquisa, também foram coletadas informações por meio de investigação documental realizada em registros junto ao NIT. A partir desse levantamento, foi possível realizar a proposição de novas práticas nos processos visando à transferência de tecnologia, bem como subsidiar as estratégias institucionais da COETI.

Revista Orinoquia, Publicación de la Dirección General de Investigaciones, destinada a la divulgación de Información Científica y Tecnológica relacionada con diversas disciplinas. ISSN en Línea: 2011-2629 ISSN Impreso: 0121-3709 DOI : https://doi.org/10.22579/issn.2011-2629

O artigo tem como objetivo realizar uma análise da interação entre universidade e empresa no sistema nacional de inovação brasileiro pela ótica dos grupos de pesquisa separado em áreas do conhecimento. Foram criados indicadores que contemplam várias dimensões desse processo de interação, de forma a identificar similaridades e diferenças entre as áreas de pesquisa que revelam particularidades do sistema nacional de inovação brasileiro.

The great potential of lipases is known since 1930 when the work of J. B. S. Haldane was published. After eighty-five years of studies and developments, are lipases still important biocatalysts? For answering this question the present work investigated the technological development of four important industrial sectors where lipases are applied: production of detergent formulations; organic synthesis, focusing on kinetic resolution, production of biodiesel, and production of food and feed products. The analysis was made based on research publications and patent applications, working as scientific and technological indicators, respectively. Their evolution, interaction, the major players of each sector and the main subject matters disclosed in patent documents were discussed. Applying the concept of technology life cycle, S-curves were built by plotting cumulative patent data over time to monitor the attractiveness of each technology for investment. The results lead to a conclusion that the use of lipases as biocatalysts is still a relevant topic for the industrial sector, but developments are still needed for lipase biocatalysis to reach its full potential, which are expected to be achieved within the third, and present, wave of biocatalysis.

In the scope of virtual and networked enterprises, we propose a way to integrate quality management into enterprise modeling and allow for quality certification of the whole enterprise. ISO 9001:2000 is presented as a suitable standard for these enterprises quality management systems implementation. On the other hand, quality management system certification in the scope of ISO 10011 is quite difficult, being presented some alternative scenarios for certification.