When oil fields of some size were discovered in Brazil, they lay in the ocean off the country’s long Atlantic coast. For this reason, when drilling and production accelerated, it tended to be compared with other offshore oil-producing regions, like the North Sea and the US Gulf of Mexico,...

1. Introduction / Franco Malerba, Sunil Mani and Pamela Adams -- 2. The rise to market leadership of Chinese leading automotive firms : a case of Geely Group from the sectoral innovation system perspective -- Bin Guo, Xiaoling Chen and Qiang Li -- 3. The Leading Chinese firms in the...

This book compares the successes and failures of the development and growth processes of Argentina and Brazil. It provides important insights into the different performances of these economies through a series of comparative essays written by Argentinian and Brazilian economists