Inovação no setor público: um estudo do Programa Cientista-Chefe do Ceará

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze the Cientista-Chefe Program, a public innovation action, carried out within the scope of the Fundação Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Ceara's Scientific Support and Technological Development Foundation) - Funcap. This program consists in researchers developing activities within the secretariats and agencies of the State Government. The specific objectives of this research are: to detail the background that led to the creation of the Cientista-Chefe Program; to descriptively analyze the goals and actions of the metaprojetos (metaprojects); and to carry out an analysis of each Cientista-Chefe's Lattes Curriculum. This study is descriptive and based on qualitative and quantitative methods. To support this study were carried out a bibliographic review, documental analyzes on the Cientista-Chefe Program's website, on State administration websites, in legislation and in official communication channels. Based on the data collected, it is concluded the researchers selected by the State Administration for the Cientista-Chefe title are all doctors for over ten years, mostly men, institutionally linked to the Universidade Federal do Ceará (Federal University of Ceará), and most of the metaprojects have an important role for the State Government by developing owned government solutions such as the Cerebrum platform, which is used in the Secretaria de Segurança Pública (Public Security Secretariat) and developing actions that allow accelerating the digital transformation of Ceará's Government through technology, amongst actions that promote positive results in priorital areas of the Government such as health and education.