Metodologia e apresenta\ue7\ue3o da base de dados do Censo 2004 do Diret\uf3rio dos Grupos de Pesquisa do Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient\uedfico e Tecnol\uf3gico (CNPq)

This book brings a series of articles that analyze the interactions of universities and research institutes with companies in Brazil, as constitutive parts of relationships that are established within the scope of a national innovation system. The texts present in the work deal with aspects of these interactions and methodological procedures for the treatment of data from the CNPq research groups directory, in addition to identifying the characteristics of exchanges between universities and companies, in state and regional parameters. The articles contribute to assess, at a given moment, the pattern of university-business interaction in the country