NETEC

The Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation Center (NETEC) is an administrative unit of UFSJ, linked to the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, whose main objective is to contribute to technological innovation in the productive environment, promoting the transfer of technology generated by research developed in the institution and incubating technology-based companies and traditional sectors.


Services
  • Guidance on intellectual property
  • Assessment of patentability requirements
  • Technological prospection
  • Technological monitoring
  • Production of patent applications, software registration, trademark and industrial design 
  • Development of Geographical Indication projects
  • Technical, administrative and legal advisory for agreements and contracts involving intellectual property and technology transfer
  • Incubation of companies

Legal fundament

Law 10,973/2004, that provides incentives for innovation and scientific and technological research in the productive environment, determines that scientific and technological institutions must have a core of technological innovation, with the following minimum competencies:
  • to ensure the maintenance of the institutional policy of stimulating the protection of creations, licensing, innovation and other forms of technology transfer;
  • evaluate and classify the results arising from research activities and projects regarding the generation of technological innovation;
  • assess application from independent inventor for adoption of invention;
  • to opine about the convenience and promote the protection of the creations developed in the institution;
  • to opine about the convenience of disclosing the creations developed in the institution, susceptible to intellectual protection;
  • monitor the processing of applications and the maintenance of the institution's intellectual property titles.  
  • business incubation
  • developing technological prospection and competitive intelligence studies in the field of intellectual property, in order to guide the ICT's innovation actions
  • develop studies and strategies for the transfer of innovation generated by the ICT
  • promote and accompany the ICT's relationship with companies
  • negotiating and managing technology transfer agreements originating from the ICT.



Team
Advisory Board

Professor Paulo Afonso Granjeiro - Coordinator of NETEC
Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, Professor André de Oliveira Baldoni
Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Elisa Tuler Albergaria 
Dean of Extension and Community Affairs, Professor Francisco Ângelo Brinati
Antônio Henrique Polastri Rodrigues - Head of the Innovation and Intellectual Property Sector 
INDETEC's representative: Moema Guimarães Santos 
Professor Paula Karina Salume
Professor Aline de Almeida Vasconcelos
Professor Daniel Bonoto Gonçalves
Professor Tulio Hallak Panzera
Professor Fernando Augusto Teixeira

Coordinator 

Professor Paulo Afonso Granjeiro

Innovation and Intellectual Property Sector

Antonio Henrique Polastri Rodrigues - Chief    

Business Incubator - INDETEC

Professor Paulo Afonso Granjeiro
Moema Guimarães Santos