The University as a Territorial Space for Innovation: The Role of University Extension in Encouraging Innovative Management Practices

Abstract

The university-society interaction, allied to research and teaching, may be seen as one of the main activities of schools of higher education. The Public Management and Citizenship Award (GPC) granted by Fundação Getúlio Vargas seeks such a relationship with the communities involved, when judging, evaluating and awarding local development initiatives. The main objective of this paper is to performe a georeference analysis of the GPC Award, presenting the reader with the main features of the development projects which were assessed as: field of activity, scope, target audience, among others. The analysis concerns the years of 2005 and 2006. Contrary to expectations, the results showed that the poorest geographic regions of the country were also the ones presenting the lowest number of projects in many fields.