This paper evaluates the main impacts of the internationalization of Brazilian manufacturing on the pass-through coefficients during the second half of the nineties. Throughout this period the Brazilian exchange rate regime has dramatically changed. In addition, it has been possible to examine...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the innovating effort of the Brazilian industrial firms, which comprises manufacturing and mining activities. Why do Brazilian industrial firms differ strongly in their effort to innovate? Our hypothesis is that these differences in firms' behavior to innovate...

This article used informations proceeding from Technological Innovation Survey (PINTEC) to analyze the innovative effort made by Brazilian firms in 2000. In this paper was analyzed if there was differentiated behavior between domestic firms and branches of transnational firms in the efforts of...

One of the most influential evolutionary model in Nelson and Winter's book is the one dealing with industrial dynamics (chapter 12). From that model came out meaningful insights about market structure and technological change relationship. Despite the improvements made by evolutionary models...

The article aims investigate features of the technical change in Brazilian industry in 2000. The literature related to sectoral patterns of innovation is utilized as theoretical framework, whereas hierarchical and non-hierarchical clustering analysis are used as methodological resource....

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...

This paper develops multiple indicators to map the geographical distribution of knowledge and scientific and technological capabilities as proxies of the geographical distribution of S,T&I activities, and applies such indicators to data and information from the state of São Paulo. The overall...

Based on the recent literature about Local Productive Arrangements - LPAs, the analysis tries to build specific indicators to analyze those agglomerations. The indicators was elaborated based on information obtained form the questionnaire of the project "MPEs em Arranjos Produtivos Locais no...

The article develops a cross-sector analysis in which we attempt to articulate the sector distribution of productive agglomerations in Brazilian economy with data about cooperative arrangements and innovative performance of industrial sectors, using data extracted from RAIS-MT carried out by the...