Criação de uma Agência de Inovação em Defesa Brasileira baseado no modelo da Agência de Inovação em Defesa da França

Abstract

The object of this research is the management and promotion of Science, Technology and Innovation (CT&I) of interest for the National Defense. The scope is the practices adopted in some countries to create agencies aimed at promoting and supporting innovative projects and capturing technologies with potential military application. A pattern change is verified in innovative vanguard. Technologies that before were developed initially to meet military needs and then launched in the commercial segments, today they are mostly developed from civilian institutions and then adapted to meet military needs. More specifically, the aim of this paper is to analyze the French Defense Innovation Agency (AID), it’s creation, organizational aspects, perspectives and challenges, aiming subsidize the debate about a possible creation of a Brazilian innovation agency. Therefore, a case study is developed on the model of this aforementioned agency, using exploratory and documentary research. As a result, it is observed that the organizational structure adopted by the AID represented a significant institutional advance towards absorbing the demands for innovation from the Ministry of the Armed Forces in France, in a short- and long-term view. Therefore, it is concluded that the model adopted for the French agency can serve as a reference for future studies on the creation of a Brazilian agency.