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: Coping with Globalisation An Analysis of Innovation Capability in Brazilian
	 Telecommunications Equipment Industry
Abstract: Brazil is one of the only three and the first one from the developing world to
	 initiate and maintain innovation capability especially in the switching equipment
	 component of the telecommunications equipment industry. The maintenance of this
	 capability has come under some strain with the increasing external integration of
	 the Brazilian telecommunications economy. Employing a sectoral system of innovation
	 perspective the paper undertakes a comprehensive evaluation of the efforts made by
	 various components of the innovation system, and especially the research and
	 policy-making parts, to maintain this capability. The ensuing analysis shows that
	 the innovation system is learning to cope with changes in its external environment
	 in a bid to maintain existing capability and has even managed to enhance capability
	 in areas such as manufacturing and marketing. In order to cope with globalisation
	 the Brazilian State has put in place a selected number of legal and fiscal
	 instruments of state support. However the very process of globalisation threatens
	 to vitiate or nullify the positive effects of these instruments
Keywords: Innovation Capability, Brazil, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Industry,
	 Public Technology Procurement
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 2004
Number: 2004-03
File-URL: https://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/2004-3.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 308 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:200403