Affordable housing and clean technology transfer in construction firms in Brazil

Sustainable Affordable Housing: State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives

“…In terms of publications that consider the cost dimension, it can be noted that some adversities seem insurmountable in the current market profile that greatly influences public housing policies. On environmental impacts, this study highlights that clean energy and green technology have been assessed in the literature to improve building performance toward sustainable construction [4]. Moreover, energy retrofit has been discussed in the literature to increase energy efficiency in buildings and examine the impact of a given government's current housing policy and its alternative housing strategies with national carbon and biodiversity targets [32].…”

“…One of the current challenges is the expansion of the urban housing supply, particularly affordable (or, more specifically, low-cost) housing, alongside the necessity to operate and maintain all existing urban infrastructure globally. In this scenario, with these perspectives, the topic of affordable housing has been widely debated worldwide, along with its potential as a solution to the housing deficit [3,4]. Its concept, dynamic over time and regionally variable, can be described as affordable housing available for lease or acquisition by any family with an income equal to or lower than the local average (according to official public assessment), irrespective of its economic and financial capacity.…”

“…Additionally, the noteworthy topic of clean energy use, particularly with an emphasis on solar energy, deserves highlighting [28][29][30]. Furthermore, publications delve into the literature on highly specific topics, such as the carbon market [31], technology transfer [4], building envelope [24], and even energy retrofits [32]. In the pursuit of sustainable development in construction, the recurrent themes in published articles are related to public housing policies [3, and infrastructure [78][79][80][81][82].…”

Evaluation framework for facilitating the technology transfers of universities: Focusing on the perspective of technology donors

“…The one-way process of adopting foreign technology [19,199] All the activities underpin the transition of a group of factors (such as knowledge, technology, and methods) from scientific research to markets [200][201][202] An active process in which advanced technologies are transferred between two different factors [49] Profitable operation of inter-branch technology transfer [25,41,48,53] The development process to create innovation [17,18,203] The process of creating and trading rights through a patent [23,204] The process of creating and trading rights through patents using the university's reputation [24,52] The process of entering the economy through technology transfer specialists [26,51] The process of implementing technology through projects and programs [32,50] The process of integrating university research into markets. [16,20,127,205,206] The process of introducing new equipment and know-how [62] The process of introducing technology through a business model [47,63] The process of trading technology through the university's technology transfer office [22,33,34,129,207] The two-way process of delivering technology to an organization through a technology transfer office [21] https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293951.t004…”