Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Mani, Sunil
Author-Email: mani@intech.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Title: Government, Innovation and Technology Policy, An Analysis of the Brazilian Experience
	 during the 1990s
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to survey the various ways through which the
	 Brazilian state has intervened in the area of technology development at the
	 enterprise level. Government intervention in technology development has manifested
	 itself in terms of four areas: First it had placed restrictions on the import of
	 foreign technology, but most of these restrictions were removed or diluted as part
	 of the liberalisation strategy of the 1990s. Consequently the cost of purchasing
	 disembodied technology has registered some significant increases during the
	 post-liberalisation phase. Second, it has initiated a number of schemes through
	 which domestic technology development is financed. In terms of instruments, these
	 can be classified into loans and grants, tax incentives and venture capital. Third,
	 the state has intervened to create an adequate supply of extremely well-trained
	 scientific manpower. While there appears to be no supply bottlenecks, the demand
	 for scientists and engineers appears to be very low. The very low density of
	 scientists and engineers indicates this. Finally the Ministério da Ciência e
	 Tecnologia (MCT), the main administrative agency responsible for innovation policy,
	 seems to be aware of the problems faced by the innovation system in the country. It
	 is in the process of giving shape to a new policy on innovation, has introduced new
	 research grants, etc., but it has not addressed itself to the fundamental weakness
	 of the innovation system, namely the low density of scientists and engineers in the
	 country
Keywords: Innovation Policy, Patents, Research Grants, Venture Capital, Human Resources
	 Development
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 2001
Number: 2001-11
File-URL: https://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/2001-11.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 305 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:200111