A MODEL FOR PRODUCT-INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGHLY COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF Ti- 6Al-4V ALLOY TREATED WITH PULSED LASER Nd:YAG IN AEROSPACE INDUSTRY

This article aims to contribute to a new planning policy in the innovative products development. To do so, it presents a new modeling proposal to integrate technological innovation and new product development (NPD) in Ti-6Al-4V Alloy Treated With Pulsed Laser Nd:YAG for turbines for Aerospace Industry, carried out according to the following stages: Phase 1: Modeling of the information needs; Phase 2: Determining of technology integration dimensions to the product; Phase 3: Evaluation of performance of technology integration dimensions to the product. To demonstrate the feasibility and plausibility of the modeling, a case study was conducted in a high tech company in Brazil (hypothetical application). The investigation was helped by the intervention of specialists with technical and scientific knowledge about the research object. To reduce subjectivity in the results, the following methods were used: Law of Categorical Judgment - psychometric scaling of Thurstone (1927), Multivariate Analysis statistical methods and method Compromise Programming, Electre III and Promethee II - multi-criteria analysis; and Neurofuzzy Technology. It is hoped that this study will stimulate a broad debate on the issue and it is acknowledged that more studies are needed to build more robust results in the near future. The results were satisfactory, validating the present proposa

Innovation capability assessment on business incubators performance using resources, leadership and capability: An investigation in business incubators from Chile, Italy and Israel

This study aims to assess the innovation capabilities on the business incubators performance using resources, leadership and capability in three countries: Chile, Israel and Italy. This research was elaborated in light of theoretical excerpts, with foundation in the model, which considers the following metrics: resources, enablement and leadership. Furthermore, in order to demonstrate the feasibility and plausibility of the model, a multiple case study was conducted in business incubators. The research had specialists' intervention, with knowledge and experience in the innovation management field, selected by the technical and scientific criteria. The data were extracted by a judging matrix with a scale type, in which the specialists gave their opinions, establishing priorities to the variables, by level of importance. In order to reduce the subjectivity in the results reached, it was used statistical techniques of multivariate analysis and multi-criteria analysis, with the support of the Electre III, Compromise Programming e Promethee II methods. The results were satisfactory, validating the modelling approach.Keywords: Innovation capabilities, innovation performance, assessment, business incubators

The next frontier: Open innovation and knowledge absorptive capacity in business incubators: Towards the experience from Chile, Israel and Italy

This research aims to verify the relationship between the open innovation practices and knowledge absorptive capacity in business incubators from Chile, Israel and Italy. Furthermore, this research examines how this affects the outcomes (business incubators performance). The research was conducted in the light of theoretical excerpts and application of a survey to specialists, with knowledge about the investigated object, selected by scientific and technical criteria. The data were extracted by means of a matrix of judgement in which experts made their judgments about the variables investigated. In order to reduce subjectivity in the results achieved, the following methods were used: multicriterial analysis and neurofuzzy technology. The produced results were satisfactory, validating the presented proposal.Keywords: Open innovation practices, knowledge absorptive capacity, business incubators, business incubators performance, experience from Chile, Israel and Italy

Reflections: innovation in distance education: the case of Brazil

O presente artigo tem o objetivo de investigar e apresentar temas que podem contribuir para a identificação da\ud inovação verificada na EAD (Educação a Distância) brasileira nos últimos sete anos. Propõe uma discussão teórica\ud orientada rumo às necessidades e trajetórias da inovação na Educação e do contexto da inovação na EAD\ud brasileira, bem como uma pesquisa de campo para conclusão da investigação. Para a obtenção dos resultados,\ud foram analisados cinquenta artigos apresentados em congressos organizados pela ABED – Associação Brasileira\ud de Educação a Distância nos anos de 2004 a 2010, seguindo os procedimentos metodológicos de uma pesquisa\ud exploratória descritiva, os quais proporcionaram a aquisição de visão global do tipo aproximativo em relação\ud ao fato determinado. Na análise, procurou-se identificar as inovações radicais e/ou incrementais dos processos\ud nessa modalidade de ensino-aprendizagem. E ainda buscou-se identificar os limites, as contribuições deste\ud trabalho e as propostas para pesquisas futuras. Os resultados apontaram as principais inovações e seus respectivos\ud percentuais de incidência, divididas em dezesseis áreas temáticas que variaram de inovações pedagógicas\ud e tecnológicas até administrativas, institucionais e políticas, bem como as características dessas inovações, as\ud quais têm se mostrado essencialmente incrementais. Finalmente, observa-se que a capacidade de aprender\ud com a análise reflexiva e com a experiência torna-se fundamental para as instituições de ensino brasileiras que\ud pretendem inovar em seus projetos de EAD. Seja como for, os resultados mostraram-se satisfatórios, validando\ud a pesquisa apresentada.This article aims to investigate and present data\ud that may contribute to the identification of innovation\ud effectively over the last seven years, in\ud DL (distance learning) Brazilian. Therefore, they\ud propose a theoretical discussion about the needs\ud and trajectories of innovation in education and\ud innovation in the context of distance education in\ud Brazil, as well as a field research to complete the\ud investigation. To obtain the results were analyzed\ud fifty papers presented in congresses organized in\ud the years 2004 to 2010 by ABED - Brazilian Association\ud for Distance Education, following the\ud methodological procedures of an exploratory\ud descriptive, which provided the overview of the\ud acquisition of type approximation in relation to\ud particular fact. The analysis sought to identify the\ud radical innovations and/or incremental processes\ud of this mode of teaching and learning. In addition,\ud we sought to identify the limits, the contributions\ud of this work and proposals for future research.\ud The results showed the main innovations and\ud their respective percentages of incidence, divided\ud into sixteen thematic areas ranging pedagogical\ud and technological innovations, to administrative,\ud institutional and political as well as the characteristics\ud of these innovations, which have been\ud shown to be essentially incremental. Finally, it is\ud observed that the ability to learn from reflective\ud analysis and experience become vital to the Brazilian\ud educational institutions wishing to innovate\ud in their distance learning projects

ATLANTIC EPIPHYTES: a data set of vascular and non-vascular epiphyte plants and lichens from the Atlantic Forest

Epiphytes are hyper-diverse and one of the frequently undervalued life forms in plant surveys and biodiversity inventories. Epiphytes of the Atlantic Forest, one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, have high endemism and radiated recently in the Pliocene. We aimed to (1) compile an extensive Atlantic Forest data set on vascular, non-vascular plants (including hemiepiphytes), and lichen epiphyte species occurrence and abundance; (2) describe the epiphyte distribution in the Atlantic Forest, in order to indicate future sampling efforts. Our work presents the first epiphyte data set with information on abundance and occurrence of epiphyte phorophyte species. All data compiled here come from three main sources provided by the authors: published sources (comprising peer-reviewed articles, books, and theses), unpublished data, and herbarium data. We compiled a data set composed of 2,095 species, from 89,270 holo/hemiepiphyte records, in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, recorded from 1824 to early 2018. Most of the records were from qualitative data (occurrence only, 88%), well distributed throughout the Atlantic Forest. For quantitative records, the most common sampling method was individual trees (71%), followed by plot sampling (19%), and transect sampling (10%). Angiosperms (81%) were the most frequently registered group, and Bromeliaceae and Orchidaceae were the families with the greatest number of records (27,272 and 21,945, respectively). Ferns and Lycophytes presented fewer records than Angiosperms, and Polypodiaceae were the most recorded family, and more concentrated in the Southern and Southeastern regions. Data on non-vascular plants and lichens were scarce, with a few disjunct records concentrated in the Northeastern region of the Atlantic Forest. For all non-vascular plant records, Lejeuneaceae, a family of liverworts, was the most recorded family. We hope that our effort to organize scattered epiphyte data help advance the knowledge of epiphyte ecology, as well as our understanding of macroecological and biogeographical patterns in the Atlantic Forest. No copyright restrictions are associated with the data set. Please cite this Ecology Data Paper if the data are used in publication and teaching events. © 2019 The Authors. Ecology © 2019 The Ecological Society of Americ

A multi-model reference for planning high complexity spectrum

A presente tese tem por propósito contribuir para uma política de planejamento no campo da educação a distância (EAD). Para isto concebe uma proposta multi-modelo de referência lastreada na definição de estratégias em espectro de alta complexidade, que considera uma seqüência de procedimentos sistematizados nas seguintes fases: (i) Determinação das necessidades de informação, em duas etapas: (a) identificação dos fatores críticos de sucesso (FCS) e (b) identificação das áreas de informação; (ii) Determinação das competências, em três etapas: (a) determinação dos conhecimentos, (b) determinação das habilidades, e (c) determinação das atitudes; (iii) Determinação dos graus de avaliação de competências; (iv) Determinação das estratégias em redes de conhecimentos. Evidencia-se a aplicação a um estudo de caso nas concessões rodoviárias no Brasil, na perspectiva das parcerias público-privadas (PPPs). A consecução da pesquisa foi por meio da intervenção de especialistas e um grupo pequeno de estudantes de um programa de EAD (MBA) aplicado às PPPs. A coleta de dados foi por meio de um formulário semi-estruturado, do tipo escalar, em uma matriz de julgamento, com a intervenção de especialistas. Vários instrumentos de apoio foram utilizados na elaboração da modelagem, com vistas a reduzir a subjetividade dos resultados alcançados: escalagem psicométrica - Lei dos Julgamentos Categóricos de Thurstone (LJC), Multicriteriais-Compromise Programinng, Electre III, e Promethee II; Análise Multivariada; Krigagem, Redes Neurais Artificiais (RNA); Redes Neurofuzzy. Os resultados produzidos mostraram-se satisfatórios, validando o procedimento proposto para EAD. Procedimento este, fundamental na definição de programas destinados para planejar a capacitação de recursos humanos a distância, bem como para a constituição de outros elementos do capital intelectual em políticas de EAD.This thesis intends to contribute to the planning guidelines in the field of distance education (DE). Thus, it develops a multi-model reference proposal supported by the definition of a highly complex spectrum of strategies that considers a sequence of systematic procedures in the following phases: (i) Determining the information needs in two stages: (a) identification of the critical success factors (CSF), and (b) identification of the information areas; (ii) Determination of competences in three stages, determining: (a) knowledge, (b) skills, and (c) attitudes; (iii) Determination of the degree of competence evaluation; and (iv) Determination of strategies in knowledge networks. There is the application to a case study of the road concessions in Brazil, within the perspective of public-private partnerships (PPPs). The research was achieved through the intervention of specialists and a small group of students from a DE program (MBA) applied to the PPPs. The data collection was conducted by means of a semi-structured form, the scalar type in a trial matrix, to which experts ascribed their assessments. Several support instruments were used in the modeling elaboration in order to reduce subjectivity in the results: psychometric scales - Thurstones Law of Comparative Judgment (LCJ), Multi-criteria Compromise Programming, Electre III, and Promethee II; Multivariate Analysis; Krigage, Artificial Neural Networking (ANN); Neuro-fuzzy networks. The results produced are satisfactory, validating the proposed procedure for DE. This is an essential procedure for the definition of programs designed to plan the training of human resources at a distance, as well as to establish other elements of intellectual capital for DE guidelines

A gestão da inovação na educação a distância

A reflexão sobre o processo de inovação no setor educacional envolve uma série de componentes que, da perspectiva da Engenharia de Produção, são sistematizados e possibilitam um considerável lucro e valor para as instituições. A sedimentação deste processo no planejamento estratégico e no modelo de negócio da instituição depende da postura dos gestores e da equipe de profissionais, que devem promover a quebra de paradigmas e a constituição de um novo modelo de negócio para a Educação a Distância (EAD). Descrevem-se, neste trabalho, alguns pontos fundamentais para a análise da inovação em EAD que envolve os subsistemas e componentes do planejamento estratégico, tais como: as fontes de conhecimento; a criação; a transmissão; a interação; o aluno; e o ambiente de aprendizagem. A inclusão da gestão da inovação nas instituições educacionais prevê a prospecção de algumas regras para a adequação do modelo de negócio, incentivado e balizado nos indicativos de proposição de valor, cadeia de suprimentos e nas características do cliente-alvo que garantem o sucesso de todo o processo. Além desses parâmetros de adequação, é necessário atingir um alto nível de envolvimento dos gestores e da equipe de docentes e técnicos para a implementação da inovação na organização. No Brasil, espera-se que os especialistas e as políticas públicas contemplem, em seus modelos de EAD, projetos de inovação com alto grau de flexibilidade e criatividade, que permitam a integração de saberes, a capacitação de equipes multidisciplinares e o uso racional de tecnologias de informação e comunicação para o compartilhamento igualitário do conhecimento