This article presents a case of interaction university-industry considered as positive for the involved professionals - professors and researchers of the university and technical team of the company - in terms of university reserch and formation of human resources as well as to the trajectory of technological qualification of the company. More specifically, it approaches the accomplishment of a research and development project (R&D) involving professors and researchers of the Faculty of Engineering Mechanics of the State University of Campinas (FEM/Unicamp) and a multinational company of the sector of auto-parts, called, to the time, Clark Equipments, currently Eaton Trucks Corporation. The article looks for to detach aspects related to the antecedents of the interaction, as well as those related to the motivation that in the scope of the company had led to the accomplishment of the contract with the university. Search still to know the opinion of the technical team of the company, as well as of the researchers of the Unicamp, concerning its implications. The authors expects, with the presentation of this in case, to contribute for one better understanding of a present question in the current agenda of the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: to evaluate the role can play multinationals companies for the national effort of technological development.
interaction university-industry; research & development; science; technology and innovation policy