Pesquisa Aplicada & Inovação: Volume 2

Abstract

Volume 2 of the book Applied Research and Innovation brings together, in 21 chapters, works presented at the III Brazilian Symposium on Applied Research and Innovation, held at the State University of Bahia – UNEB, in October 2017. Following the logic of this event that has been held annually, the texts written by academics and professionals from different areas of knowledge deal with interdisciplinary works resulting from research activities that aim to develop applicable technologies, as well as works that debate the dissemination to society of knowledge generated in teaching and research institutions and in other productive environments. Thus, this publication seeks to disseminate the results of research and development activities that can contribute to the sustainable development of society, based on an understanding of the strategic role that innovation has acquired in recent decades and which reached even higher levels in Brazil since the 2000s, when it gained the status of State policy with the advent of the approval of the Innovation Law and other legal instruments that reflected a concerted effort between different spheres of public power with a view to encouraging scientific and technological development in the productive and social environment.