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Sources of technological opportunity in Brazil
Sources of technological opportunity in Brazil
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Rocha, Frederico
Ruiz, Ana Urraca
Ruiz, Ana Urraca
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This paper aims to assess the relevance of different sources of TO for Brazilian industries
and to compare the results with those obtained in science-frontier countries. The paper uses micro
level data from PINTEC (2003). The paper covers two different sources of TO: extra-mural sources
of knowledge and technological trajectories and compare them with sectoral R&D intensity,
sectoral rate of innovation (innovative output) and a input-output measure of TO, that is, of the
probability of an innovative effort transforming into an innovation. The paper concludes that: (i)
the knowledge used by Brazilian industry is highly production intensive. Very few sectors give
relevance to sources of knowledge outside industry. Technological trajectories patterns are also
different from scientific frontier countries; (ii) the distinguishing factors in terms of innovative
strategy and performance are different. They refer, on the supply side, to sources of information
outside Brazil, that is, most innovative industries require international sources of information and
do not use Brazilian scientific and technology institutions. On the demand side, behavior is framed
by market regulation institutions that require the use of productive standards. Therefore, most
innovative industries make use of certification agencies to attend to market regulation standards,
that is, innovation in Brazil is not associated with technological breakthroughs but it is related to
following quality patterns; (iii) this pattern of distinguishing sectors is quite different from leading
countries' results whose distinguishing features are proximity to science and the use of higher
education and research labs.
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2008-09
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