Alignment of science and technology activities by Minas Gerais federal universities with the guidelines of PITCE - Industrial, Technology and Foreign Trade Policy

It is argued in this paper the possible alignment between scientific activities and technological research carried out by universities and the guidelines of public policies on science and technology in Brazil. As a way of delimiting the field of analysis, without compromising the scope of this paper, we restricted our focus on the federal public universities in Minas Gerais State and we checked the possible convergence with the Industrial Policy and Foreign Trade (PITCE). More than that, it is argued as essential the function of universities as generators of knowledge within an innovation system and a closer university-industry-state relation should be pursued as proposed by the 'Triple helix'.