University extension and innovative university: an exploratory review in the UFSC institutional repository

This research aims to analyze the academic production on the themes of innovative university and university extension, in the institutional repository of UFSC. It is a qualitative study, with a bibliographic approach, using the Systematic Search Flow (SSF) method. As a result, university management is crucial for extension projects in promoting results for society; it was found that the term entrepreneurial university is more used than innovative university, meaning acting in teaching-research-extension, which is understood as innovation and entrepreneurship, with the transfer of knowledge to the market, using mechanisms of protection, becoming an intangible asset. The emergence of the innovative/entrepreneurial university is evident in the innovation ecosystem, considering the university-industry-government cooperation since the teaching-research-extension triad represent the pillars for the scope of the university’s actions in society.