Innovation indicators for the academic context

Based on an informational perspective on I&D+i (Research and Development and innovation) and entrepreneurship, it is presented a study applied to the knowledge transfer and the process of innovation in the University in the context of a master dissertation in Information Science (CI), study area of Information Management. This work presents an investigation applied to the knowledge transfer and the process of innovation in the University of Porto from the perspective of Information Management, in the broad area of Information Science.

An exploratory study took place, which allowed the identification of the internal and external agents, the resources, the relations between actors and institutions, the processes and flows, and the main inputs and outputs. The most relevant result is embodied in a model of innovation indicators in an academic context and its consequent adequation to the University of Porto. The dataset includes innovation indicators of many institutions, such as COTEC Portugal, INE (the Portuguese National Statistics Bureau) and OCDE and were analyzed according to Systemic Theory, Quadripolar Method, bibliometric analysis and statistical and mathematical methods.