A capacitação docente e a internacionalização como estratégias para impulsionar a geração de conhecimentos nas Universidades Estaduais Baianas

Abstract

Innovation and knowledge are important allies in the search for social and economic development of nations. Environments and ecosystems that align the generation of scientific knowledge with the creation of innovative products are relatively common in some developed countries and contribute to social welfare of population, besides stimulating local economy. However, in Brazil, the development of these environments is still incipient in most higher education institutions and, most of the times, is concentrated in those with higher academic performance and international reference. In that scenario, faculty qualification emerges as a relevant strategy for the development of graduation programs, science, technology and competition of products and services. Thus, this work aims at mapping faculty training in the four state universities of Bahia (so-called UEBAS) in doctorate and post-doctorate programs between 2007 and 2011, and its effects on the evolution of scientific and technological production in the state of Bahia from 2012 to 2018. The analysis considered indicators of scientific production obtained from curriculums in CNPq Lattes platform referent to 607 sample cases, divided into two subgroups: faculty with training in Brazil and faculty with full international training or with sandwich grants in Doctorate and Post-Doctorate periods. The analysis of data appreciated a global clipping for the four Universities, and one individualized and comparative clipping among them. It was developed from tabulation and data observation using quantitative methodology, including calculation of per capta rates of total scientific, as well as stratified productions, besides its representation in temporal dimension. The results obtained enhance the role of faculty training as stimulating instrument for innovation and internationalization of state universities of Bahia, and recommend its insertion in the internal policies of UEBAS, aiming at boosting scientific and technologic production and contributing to the development of the state of Bahia.