A produção de ciência e tecnologia nas IFES e o trabalho do professor empreendedor na Universidade Federal Fluminense

Abstract

The present thesis approaches how the production of science and technology is currently taking place in Brazil and how this new way of knowledge production affects the work of professors/researchers in the small and medium Brazilian Federal Universities, between the years 1995 and 2016, especially at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). This paper will focus on the study about the work of the so-called "entrepreneurs teachers", a category that arises from the internal hierarchy created in the search for antagonistic university models, from which "entrepreneurial universities" emerge. It presents the new role attributed by the reform of the State and assumed by the IFES (Federal Institutes of High Education) in the process necessary for capital in order to increase its productivity and cheapen the value of the workforce. It highlights the importance of entrepreneurship in this process of precarization and intensification of work and the importance that the APH's of the bourgeoisie aknowledge directly in the formulation of public policies of higher education, employment and production of science and technology. The dissemination of the entrepreneurial culture permeates the public university, altering its bases, opening space for the public character of the institutions to be undermined by an internal privatization defended by the peers, allied with the participation of business groups with economic and predominantly ideological objectives. It analyzes the relationships between the APH's of the bourgeoisie, international organizations, policy-making bodies, the role of development and evaluation agencies, academic intellectuals and academic managers in spreading this entrepreneurial culture in the IFES. It unveils the actions of private foundations in supporting UFF and the Innovation Agency in directing the resources obtained externally, analyzing each of the academic units that present themselves as partners of this university model at UFF. As a result, the surprising finding is that most of the financial resources received, which are fairly small, are taken from government agencies or public or mixed-economy enterprises, and that these amounts are largely directed to the private Lato Sensu post-graduation courses for the payment of scholarships to the institution own professors. It concludes that the institutional culture of entrepreneurship in the UFF, captained by the "entrepreneurs teachers", presents mainly ideological character regarding its general and economic objectives in front of the individual objectives