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P-009INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – AN IMPORTANT INSTITUTION FOR ECONOMICDEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN CAMPINAS – SP –BRAZILAdriana Carvalho Pinto Vieira, Instituto Geociencias - Unicamp, BrazilJosiane Fachini Falvo, Antonio Marcio Buainain, Ricardo Cifuentes da Silva, Instituto de Economia - Unicamp, BrazilIn Brazil, the promulgation of the Intellectual Property Law, in 1996, starts a new stage to valuate technical innovation. Weemphasize that the Brazilian innovation rate is low when it is compared to the same rate in other countries, especially to OCDEcountries. In despite of its relevance, the mechanism of protection and negotiation about intellectual property are unknown inbusiness and university areas. There isn’t yet a culture to require patent, mainly about “small solutions” that are use daily.However, many technologies can be copied, improved and patented by huge international corporations due to lack of protectionof main idea that generates innovation. But, many institutional mechanisms have promoted the increase of investments inresearch and development. Then, Brazil has a university system, with international prestige and a good business basis tocontribute and accelerate the process of technological diffusion over the country. These two actors – university and business –are important to the decrease of the gap between science and market in Brazil. The scientific policies, which create publicuniversities and research institutes, contribute to formation of researchers (basic and broaden) about technical and scientificinfrastructure and the increase of production chain competitiveness in more dynamic sectors. But, the scientific communitycan’t be restricted to the production of knowledge. It’s important the validation and evaluation about this knowledge and itsintegration with sector and regional policies. The knowledge, which is generated in universities and research institutes, need tobe transformed in goods and services and contribute to the increase of population’s life quality and country’s development. InBrazil, the knowledge chains are concentrated in developed states and this situation produces regional asymmetries andfragmentation of productive structures. People talks about the needs of a national project that relief the regional inequalityregarding to the technological matrix, according to a strategy for the development of local innovation systems and nationalintegration. A way to promote a productive and technological desconcentration is building regional poles in strategic fields.These poles enlarge the scientific and technological infrastructure and allow connections with interdisciplinary research networksin Brazil and over the world. In this hand, the Campinas Area has been characterized by a regional pole for scientific, technologicaland innovation development. This pole is well-known over the world, but it doesn’t have appropriated policies that promote theintegration between knowledge chain and the process to promote the innovation and modernization of productive techniquesinside local productive sectors. The aim of this paper is to introduce the development of technological innovation in Brazil, afterthe appearing of Trips and after the modification of institutions regarding to intellectual property, using the case of the installationof the technological park in the Campinas Metropolitan Area, in São Paulo state. To reach this aim, the methodology used inthis research was the survey of secondary data about the technological development in Brazil. The variables collected werequantity of patents, scientific papers, quantity of innovation business and another kind of information considered important forthe comparative analysis that was done in this study. National data was compared to some countries data to show the Brazilianinsertion in a broad international innovation process. The information about Campinas Metropolitan Area was analyzed tocharacterize the building process of the technological pole of Campinas and its insertion in technological context in Brazil. Wehope to contribute to the characterization and discussion about the importance to build a technological pole in Campinas Areaand also about the Brazilian technological progress. We understand that this paper is the first step to know the theme and it’sa general mapping of the advances reached inside this technological pole.Keywords: intellectual property, technological innovation, institutions and technological development, technological pole.Madrid, October 20, 21 & 22 - 201049