This case-study article presents the results from a morphology analysis of a knowledge and information network, focusing on the coordination mechanisms employed to generate a convergent arrangement. Agritempo was the first information system to offer (in 2003) free access to…

Challenges and new horizons for the strengthening of family farming; Embrapa?s studies benefit family farming and Brazilian traditional populations; Basic sanitation: a solution to improve quality of life in the fields; Technology for sustainable agricultural and livestock system; Adoption of…

A inovação nasce a partir da ação coordenada de diferentes atores. Essas interações estão voltadas para a formação de uma cadeia de conhecimentos que é fundamental para o processo de inovação. Assim, a proposta deste artigo é avaliar as relações…

The "Technological Innovation Act", promulgated in Brazil in 2004, represents the main legal framework implemented to promote technological innovation and to delineate a favorable scenario for scientific development in Brazil. It regulates specially the relationship between Scientific and Technological Institutions…

At present, there is a global driving towards the concept of universities as protagonists of production of knowledge and generation of technological innovation for the society. To meet that new reality, universities have been challenged to change traditional structures and…