Proposta de framework para avaliação de fatores críticos de sucesso de parques científicos e tecnológicos

Abstract

Identifying and evaluating the key characteristics for organizational development through available resources — critical success factors — is fundamental to organizational competitiveness. Once these factors are mapped, organizations are able to delineate growth and sustainability goals. It identified a gap regarding the lack of a systematic intended to identify and evaluate the critical success factors of organizations, because the theme is broad, comprehensive and has several definitions, making it difficult to use. This problem is evident with more intensity in science and/or technology parks, in which observe a lack of methodologies, routines and tools to assist the processes of identification and evaluation of such factors. This research aims to contribute with answer to these questions, proposing a framework to evaluate the critical success factors of science and/or technology parks. Initially, semi structured interviews with academic and parks experts were conducted, collecting opinions and suggestions to refine the framework components that was initially developed based on literature review. Then the full implementation of the current framework was applied in two Brazilian parks: TECNOPUC and PORTO DIGITAL. The application was conducted with managers of these parks and with managers of companies established in these parks. Through the application of the framework was possible to identify and evaluate the critical success factors of these parks in order to guide their managers to understand how to make these parks more competitive. For example, a critical success factor identified for TECNOPUC was: "The park develops an internationalization program through cooperation agreements, providing opportunities for new markets and business stakeholders." Furthermore, the framework application allowed to gather similarities and idiosyncrasies perceived by managers consulted. For example, in PORTO DIGITAL, a similarity of perception among surveyed segments is that the park is able to consolidate agreements among established companies in this park, the government and the University to develop projects and incentive programs for the development of PORTO DIGITAL ecosystem.