A INFLUÊNCIA DA CULTURA ORGANIZACIONAL UNIVERSITÁRIA SOBRE O PROCESSO DE TRANSFERÊNCIA TECNOLÓGICA

The current trend of technological development not only requires companies to maintain investment in innovation as to continuously increase the value of investment for R & D. Educational institutions, in turn, hold the expertise, trained personnel and laboratory infrastructure and interest in being cl oser to the business segment, in order to apply the knowledge generated within their research centers. Governments, interested to provide economic sustainability for national companies, attempt in various ways to create mechanisms to foster consolidation o f local manufacturing facilities, with the creation of jobs and income. This convergence of motives, purposes and needs of the three economic actors, businesses, educational and government institutions, originated a new model of technological development c alled the " Triple Helix ", with governments creating funds with funds for development of the projects and innovation, with the prerequisite that they be invested in projects in partnership between educational institutions / research and business. This res earch aims to assess the degree of influence of the organizational culture of a specific group of professionals, consisting of researchers and teachers from six technology courses at a large private university in southern Brazil, in the technology transfer process