Condições econômicas e institucionais do processo de inovação: proposta de um modelo sistêmico de investigação do progresso tecnológico e o desenvolvimento de inovações na indústria

This paper analyzes the dynamics of innovation in the economy. Thus, it examines the economic and social conditions involved in the technological progress and promotion of innovations. The economic structure is seen in front of the company's innovative features and the accumulation of capabilities dedicated to the innovation. The social conditions are considered in respect of the role of institutions in the innovation process. The relationship between economic and social environments shape the social capital, responsible for the generation, dissemination and use of technologies that shape the innovation process. The analysis of these conditions for the promotion of innovation is built by means of systemic models of innovation. These models capture innovation in four environments, the national, sectoral, regional and technological. Stylized facts are verified in the literature and confirm the conditions microeconomic, sectoral, regional and institutional into the development of innovations. The artice proposes that the study of innovation incorporates these differences in their theoretical and empirical body.

Acurácia da ultra-sonografia pré-natal para detecção de anomalias congênitas maiores /

Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde.O objetivo do estudo foi avaliar a acurácia do ultra-som pré-natal para detecção de anomalias congênitas maiores. Três mil e duzentos e onze fetos foram examinados, sendo que 110 apresentaram 158 anomalias maiores ao nascimento ou autópsia (prevalência: 3,42%). A ultra-sonografia detectou corretamente 132 das 158 anomalias (sensibilidade = 83,5%), com uma especificidade de 99,8%. Numa análise secundária, somente fetos examinados entre 15 e 22 semanas cuja indicação para exame não fosse a suspeita prévia de anomalia congênita em ultra-som anterior (n=1.432) foram incluídos. Vinte e três fetos apresentaram 28 anomalias ao nascimento ou autópsia (prevalência: 1,60%). A sensibilidade e especificidade para detecção de anomalias maiores foi 78,6% e 99,8%, respectivamente. Fetos considerados normais ao ultra-som, mas que tinham anomalias maiores ao nascimento ou autópsia, apresentaram: pé torto congênito (n=5); hérnia diafragmática (n=2); encefalocele coberta por pele (n=1); comunicação interventricular (CIV) (n=1); fissura esternal tipo I (n=1) e síndrome de Ivemark (n=1). Os diagnósticos falso-positivos foram: CIVs observadas com Doppler colorido (n=3); hidronefrose leve (n=2) e coarctação de aorta (n=1)

Uma extensão ao modelo schumpeteriano de crescimento endógeno [A new Schumpeterian endogenous growth model]

In the Schumpeterian endogenous growth model, random innovations (technical progress) are the main element that explains economic growth. Empirical analyses suggest there are two variables that explain the introduction of innovations: a randomly variable and a deterministic trend. In this paper we add a deterministic variable to the basic Schumpeterian growth model. The introduction of a determinist variable improves the basic model. The new model reproduces several styled facts, which are shown in simulations.endogenous growth; spatial agglomeration

ReCooPla: a DSL for coordination-based reconfiguration of software architectures

In production environments where change is the rule rather than the exception, adaptation of software plays an important role. Such adaptations presuppose dynamic reconfiguration of the system architecture, owever, it is in the static setting (design-phase) that such reconfigurations must be designed and analysed, to reclude erroneous evolutions. Modern software systems, which are built from the coordinated composition of loosely-coupled software components, are naturally adaptable; and coordination specification is, usually, the main reference point to inserting changes in these systems. In this paper, a domain-specific language—referred to as ReCooPLa—is proposed to design reconfigurations that change the coordination structures, so that they are analysed before being applied in run time. Moreover, a reconfiguration engine is introduced, that takes conveniently translated ReCooPLa specifications and applies them to coordination structures.(undefined