Dinâmica da inovação no Brasil: uma análise tecnológica do fluxo comercial internacional

Abstract

Understanding innovation as the adoption of new technologies, is linked to generation of products, processes and solutions innovation systems whose agents interact with each other. Brazil, since the seventies, recognizes the propellant character of technological innovation to develop national plans for Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (CT&I), adapting the nation to the new competitive and dynamic global environment. In presenting empirical evidence of Pesquisa de Inovação (PINTEC), can be understand the position and trajectory of technological innovation in the country. Studying the level of technological intensity, the Brazil-World trade flow, brings sectoral elucidations of the Brazilian productive structure from the purchases and exports in recent years. The repercussions in the foreign trade of innovative activity is more clearly demonstrated in the analysis of major trading partners.