OPTIMUS: metodologia de gestão da inovação para instituições científicas e tecnológicas públicas

Abstract

Featuring rules aimed at stimulating scientific development, research, scientific and technological training and innovation, Law 13,243 of January 11, 2016 – known as the Legal Framework for Science, Technology and Innovation – impacts on Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) projects of Scientific, Technological and Innovation Institutions (STI). The appropriation of the legal instrument by the Brazilian STI can lead to the strengthening of the country’s competitiveness. It is within this legal demand that the window of opportunity for scientific and entrepreneurial research of this work is centered. In this direction, the objective of the study was to develop an agile management methodology, focused on the specificities of public STI, especially in terms of compliance with institutional and legal requirements, as well as in terms of speeding up the various phases of &I projects. Within this purpose, the following tools were studied: (1) MS Project, Artia, Slack, Asana, Gantt Project; (2) the agile Scrum methodology; (3) the Design Thinking creation approach and (4) the technological readiness level assessment methodology - TRL. The effort of this scientific and entrepreneurial research generated the OPTIMUS, an Innovation Management Methodology focused on the optimization of R&D&I projects for public STI. Besides monitoring compliance with STI requirements, in the phases of (i) basic and applied research; (ii) technological development and (iii) innovation, OPTIMUS informs TRL of RD&I projects, which can be configured in mitigation of investment risks. In order to validate OPTIMUS, the minimally viable product – MVP of the tool of the same name – was used under simulation in the SPACEVANT research project of Barreira do Inferno Launch Center (CLBI). The analysis of the validation data showed that the use of OPTIMUS offers speed of processing and simplification of internal procedures.