The National Technological University (NTU), a consortium of more than twenty American engineering schools, broadcasts courses produced at member institutions to professional engineers at corporate sites across the country. It is a nonprofit institution.begun in fall 1984 with headquarters in Fort Collins, Colorado, which offers only course work leading to the Master of Science degree in various branches of technology, or applied science. Students must be sponsored by their corporate employers who pay their tuition. This is the first systematic examination of the instructional process at an educational institution created in response to the demands of the governmental and corporate sectors' technological needs. This study includes an attempt to explore the effectiveness of that instructional process and the use of computers in distance education at NTU and implications for institutions of the future. This study focuses on distance education, corporate education, national universities and nontraditional institutions and the extent to which NTO exemplifies each of these concepts. It covers the organizational structure and methods of operation of NTU, and offers opinions of students, faculty, and other personnel associated with the institution as reflected by surveys, interviews, and the media.

Submitted by ANA KARLA PEREIRA RODRIGUES (anakarla_@hotmail.com) on 2017-09-26T15:53:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 4107464 bytes, checksum: 3b3278f031a533bd260738f771fbaef8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-26T15:53:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 4107464 bytes, checksum: 3b3278f031a533bd260738f771fbaef8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-10-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / State intervention in the economic sphere has always existed, but the way that has occurred varies in intensity and methods of history. This variation in the form of the state act is closely linked to the objectives and priorities established in the current Constitution in each period. In the current 1988 Constitution, one of the priorities is achieving national technological autonomy, sealed in Article 219, and to achieve this taxation has signaled a very effective mechanism. In this vein, this thesis analyzes the contribution of intervention in the economic domain, a sort of tribute, created by Law no. 10,168 / 00, also called CIDE-Royalties. This proposal, from the point of view extrafiscality not yet explored based on research of the CIDE-Royalties feasibility as a tool to achieve national technological autonomy, a key to economic growth in Brazil issue. Another band, check this guard CIDE compatible with the constitutional principles of their institution. To achieve this result, beginning with the analysis of the forms of state intervention in the economy, analysis of the constitutional system of fiscal taxes and species present in the Brazilian legal system, identifying the extrafiscality the service of economic intervention of its opposite which it is taxation. From there, it goes to a prospective analysis of the intervention contribution in the economic domain and its kind established by law 10.168/00. Developing its matrix-rule of tax incidence, checking the criteria for checking constitutionality and linking the application of these tax revenues, for the goal that led to its creation by the scope goal of speculation purpose pursued is the national technological autonomy proposed in this document. Research is dogmatic and literary, using the deductive method. We concluded that the CIDE-Royalties is constitutional and that its application in the extrafiscality dimension corresponds to a form of state intervention in the economy in the form of induction of indirect taxes and their income tax side, they are reversed FNDCT to the formation of viable instruments of national technological autonomy. / A intervenção do Estado no domínio econômico sempre existiu, embora a forma como ela tenha ocorrido varie em intensidades e métodos ao longo da história. Essa variação no modo de atuar do Estado está intimamente ligada aos objetivos e prioridades estabelecidas na Carta Magna vigente em cada período. Na atual Constituição de 1988, umas das prioridades é alcançar a autonomia tecnológica nacional, estampada no artigo 219 e, para atingir esse objetivo, a tributação tem dado sinais de um mecanismo bastante eficaz. Nesta senda, que a presente dissertação analisa a contribuição de intervenção no domínio econômico, espécie de tributo, criado pela Lei nº 10.168/00, também chamada de CIDE-Royalties. A proposta vertente, sob a perspectiva ainda não explorada da extrafiscalidade se baseia em investigar se a CIDE-Royalties consiste em instrumento de viabilidade para alcançar autonomia tecnológica nacional, questão fundamental para o crescimento econômico brasileiro. De outra banda, verificar se esta CIDE guarda compatibilidade com os preceitos constitucionais de sua instituição. Para se chegar a este resultado, principia-se pela análise das formas de intervenção do Estado na economia, da análise do sistema constitucional tributário e das espécies tributárias presentes no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro, identificando a extrafiscalidade a serviço da intervenção econômica a partir do seu contrário, que é a fiscalidade. Desse ponto, passa-se para uma análise mais prospectiva da contribuição de intervenção no domínio econômico e sua espécie criada pela Lei 10.168/00. Busca-se construir a regra-matriz de incidência tributária, aferindo os critérios de sua constitucionalidade, para então verificar a vinculação da aplicação das receitas deste tributo ao objetivo que ensejou a sua criação. Após faz-se uma incursão no objetivo a ser perseguido que é a autonomia tecnológica nacional proposta neste trabalho. A pesquisa realizada é dogmática e bibliográfica, utilizando-se o método dedutivo. Chegou-se à conclusão de que a CIDE-Royalties é constitucional e que a sua aplicação, na dimensão extrafiscal corresponde a uma forma de intervenção do Estado na economia sob a forma indireta de indução tributária e que as suas receitas, aspecto fiscal, são revertidas ao FNDCT formando instrumentos de viabilização da autonomia tecnológica nacional.

The thesis is about analysing the capability of the civil aircraft industry in contributing towards improved national technological competitiveness. The South African government recognises the potential for the country’s aircraft industry to contribute to the growth of the national economy. However, it is not known if the current support mechanisms are adequate for developing the appropriate technological base and for promoting the innovative capabilities of the industry. Countries with successful aircraft industries were studied: South Korea and Brazil were used to represent emerging economies and France was used to represent developed economies. This was done to analyse existing models or frameworks and/or commonalities that led to the successful development of technologically competitive civil aircraft industries internationally. The South African civil aircraft industry was also studied, and its technology development competence was compared to that of successful countries. How the local technology development framework could be structured or improved, using lessons from successful countries, was considered. Local participants were representatives of the South African government departments or ministries (DTI; and DST), academia (The University of the Witwatersrand – Wits; and the University of Cape Town – UCT), research institutions (CSIR and NRF), and firms (Aerosud, Denel, and Aerospace Monitoring and Systems – AMS). Based on the analysis of the findings, frameworks aimed at improving the technological base of the South African civil aircraft industry were proposed as follows: </ul> <li> The development of technology capability building through government interventions. This emphasises aggressive government interventions that encourage collaboration between firms in the industry, and with research and higher education institutions, followed by major investment in research and development.</li> <li> An institutional structure for the development of national aircraft technology. This is aimed at strengthening the technology development arena of the South African aircraft industry, through acquired projects, but with less emphasis on business acquisition.</li> <li> The establishment of the South African Aircraft Industry Corporation (SAAIC), a technology development and skills-transfer programme.</li> </ul> Copyright / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Graduate School of Technology Management (GSTM) / unrestricted