This work aims to present the main results of the analysis of the data provided by the Innovation Survey (PINTEC) 2000 and 2011 for the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. This paper also defines technical concepts of innovation according to the main manuals dealing with the development of...

This paper aims to present the Price Equation and its application to the Brazilian economy, with theoretical grounding in neo-Schumpeterian approach to competition, innovation and dynamics, as well as the Generalized Darwinism perspective. A model inspired in Price Equation is used to decompose...

Over the last decade, the defense industry has consistently obtained relevance on the agenda of public policies of the Brazilian government, among which it is worth highlighting the National Defense Industry Policy (2005), the National Defense Strategy (2008), and the Greater Brazil Plan (2011)....

This paper investigates whether global sourcing is significant as a causative factor to explain innovation in the Brazilian industry. The main conclusion is that this factor is important only in the scale intensive industrial sectors. Besides the National Innovation System seems to be weak and...

In recent decades, the design, development and use of space services has become an important economic pillar in several economies, where the increased magnitude of activities and space products and services gained importance in the process of economic and social development, not only in...

Though a fairly common phenomenon both in developed and in developing countries, the economic groups are still organizations that have received little attention. Only more recently the economic literature and other social sciences have studied the issue more systematically. This paper aims to...

This paper evaluates the main determinants of the American Foreign Direct Investment (IDE) flows throughout the recent period. We estimate a gravity model for testing the hypothesis that transnational corporations' decisions concerning IDE are influenced by the sector of activity to which they...

This paper analyses the patterns of technological activities found in 53,102 Brazilian industrial firms that do not differentiate products and have lower productivity, a set which encompasses 78.5% of the total number of Brazilian industrial firms (foreign capital firms and firms dedicated to...