Biotechnology

Biography

Biography: Gisele Rodrigues Atayde,

Abstract

Fostering the creation of academic startups have become a key concept of institutional and governmental directives and strategies of several developed countries. Some incentives are generated within universities and innovation centers which takes into account the necessity to train researchers in management practices, patenting and marketing studies to maximize the possibility of new business originated from research. Regarding the biotechnology field with focus on developing new products, research business opportunities targeting usually often arises after several years of study and even after publications and patenting. In addition to this, there are high research costs involved as well as numerous risks and failures inherent to development during the initial stages of research. Given this context, the necesseity to include facilitating agents that understand the field of ​​study as well as the current market trends and needs becomes important in order to assist researchers during the product development phase to ensure market adherence. One of the hypotheses of this study is that the leader of an academic research group can become a facilitating agent to promote and foster the development of new business. The general objective is to understand the processes involved, beggining with the criteria used to select potential projects until the culmination of a patent generation originated from a research group in the biotechnology field which is focused on production of medical drugs inside a Brazilian university. It is estimated that within the research process and exploration, there are some market validations that can be made during the development phase and can support the creation of new business.