Análise da produção técnico-científica dos docentes de duas jovens universidades de modelos distintos: comparativo entre a Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR) e a Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)

Abstract

The objective of the present study is to compare the productions of the professors of UTFPR and UFABC universities in the field of research and innovation. These higher education institutions were created in 2005 by the Federal Government. UTFPR arises from the transition of the Federal Center for Technological Education (CEFET-PR) to a University, with the mission of training professionals through technology education with more practical learning approaches in close collaboration with the productive sectors and society, boosting the development of the regions where it operates. The UFABC is born from a State project in one of the most industrialized regions of Brazil, having as its fundamentals interdisciplinarity for the development of scientific spirit and reflective thinking, with the objective of forming citizens with professional competence in different areas of knowledge. The UTFPR is the only model of Technological University created in Brazil, but some characteristics of this model, or all, to different degrees, are present in the classical university recommended by UFABC. Thus, this exploratory research is understood by analyzing these two models of universities. The comparison that is intended to be presented is concentrated on the exploration of the technical and scientific productions registered by the teachers in the Lattes Platform maintained by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) related to applied research and innovation of the institutions. Data were collected and provided by the Stela Experta platform, an educational data management company, in Excel file format. The basic hypothesis is based on the evolution and characteristics of these two models, based on the technological axes established by the Network of Technological and Polytechnic Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean, which have technological axes that guide a Technological University. The study is comparative and exploratory. The documentary corpus consists of institutional documents and the extraction of the lattes curricula of the researchers from UTFPR (2,549) and UFABC (670), based on technical-scientific productions, from their creation that comprises the yearof 2005 until the year of 2017. Subsequently, the steps of the process are applied. Knowledge Discovery in Data Base, using algorithms of text mining, and statistical methods of description and analysis of variance applied in steps of data exploration. The research partially confirmed the hypothesis. The data analysis showed that, after 14 years of its transformation into a university, UTFPR had a distancing from the characteristics of Technological University in relation to the profile of teachers and to their applied research when compared with the classic model of UFABC. On the other hand, its area of innovation presented itself as a differential in the comparison of the two models, being today the country's highlight in this area. On the other hand, the classic UFABC has consolidated itself in the area of high impact research, results that surpass the national average. It is concluded that the UTFPR is challenged to strengthen its faculty and research in technology to consolidate its model of Technological University creating its own identity and scientific-industrial recognition.