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Federal Institute of Pernambuco; Search; Science; Technology; Innovation.
This thesis analyzed the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Pernambuco (IFPE), seeking to establish its relationship with the legal frameworks of the Brazilian Science, Technology and Innovation Policy. It was assumed that this policy was implemented in a context of rooted innovation as a hegemonic reference for Brazilian research institutions, reflecting part of the prescription provided by international organizations for the sector. The thesis defended here is that the IFPE develops its investigative practice between academicist assumptions and aligned with Innovation, without, however, guiding the perspectives of Research, Science and Technology, specified in Law nº 11.892 of 2008 and in one of its main structuring documents , the "Conceptions and Guidelines of the Federal Institutes". The work took historical-dialectical materialism as a theoretical-methodological foundation, using as a priori categories of analysis "totality", "mediation" and "contradiction" and as empirical categories "Science", "Technology", "Research" and "Research". Innovation". The investigation used a qualitative-quantitative approach and involved a wide set of documents produced in the international, national and institutional spheres. Among these, the reports of research carried out at the institution, deposited by its researchers between the years 2010 and 2020, representing a volume of 145 documents, stand out. The results obtained in the investigation highlight that the restructuring initiatives of schools belonging to the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education (RFEPCT), from the creation of the Federal Institutes, by Law nº 11.892 of 2008, contained as one of the main objectives to incorporate in the new institutionality the mission of promoting the development of the territories where these schools were installed, was only partially fulfilled in the context of the IFPE. This thesis shows that, in the field of Research, the institution has a majority production of academic works, although its conception oscillates between critical perspectives and market service. The Science and Technology categories appear in the institution's documents with a primarily discursive character, and with few works that result in technologies. On the other hand, Innovation is deeply aligned with the guidelines of international organizations and the market, being the target of great attention and investment by the institution, which has resulted in progressive increases in intellectual property registration claims.