The socioeconomic development requires technical and scientific development and consequently, innovations. As innovations only happen within companies, they need to reinvent themselves from time to time to stay on the market. However, this process of novelty seeking is increasingly complex and firms end up choosing to interact with an external source of knowledge, including universities.Read more about Dissertation: Protection and licensing of technologies in the University: the experience of UFRGS[…]

The university-industry interaction is one of the key tools to stimulate social and economic development of a country. On one side, the possibility of interaction depends, in the first instance, on the offer of scientific and technological knowledge existing in the context of the relationship. On the other hand, to really have interaction, is notRead more about Dissertation: Structural determinants of the level of interaction between universities and companies[…]

The final value of the goods in the twenty-first century does not always reflect the value of raw material, manpower and technology added in each step of the value chain. That is, the producer gets little and the buyer pays too much. Fair trade research focus on this work comes as an alternative to endRead more about Dissertation: Fair trade in Brazil and the commercialization of ecological cotton products[…]

Although the importance of innovation and sustainability for industries is evident, apparently in the food sector those concepts are being considered separately. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines eco-innovation as “the development of products, processes, marketing methods, organizational structure, and new or improved institutional arrangements, which, intentionally or not, contribute to aRead more about Thesis: Drivers for adoption of eco-innovation and enhancement of food companies’ environmental performance[…]

The central thematic of this thesis consists on the evaluation of which are the activities, within the production chain of the farming sector, that intervene directly with the formation of the product value perceived for the customer. For such, it is based in theory on the method of Activity Based Costing (ABC), for the decompositionRead more about Thesis: Analysis of the aggregation of cost and value by activities, in an agroindustrial chain: case of beef cattle[…]

Due to particularities in the primary sector, in respect to management, few studies have been conducted in the administrative field aiming at the application of managerial techniques in it. The present research has as its objective the validation of the activity-based-costing (ABC) accounting method for the agrarian production.This work constructs formal procedures for implanting theRead more about Dissertation: Application of the activity-based costing method (ABC) in agribusiness: case of the production of greenhouse roses[…]

A firm is a complex economic agent. This agent has been studied through different theories of the firm. While, some works underlined its technological nature, other works emphasized its transactional nature. However, the nature of the firm covers both dimensions. These two dimensions could be studied through two essential capabilities: the technological one and theRead more about Thesis: The technological-transactional nature and firm’s performance[…]