This paper discusses the impacts of the technological internationalization process in the Brazilian economy, focusing on R&D activities, comparing national and subsidiaries R&D performance. After a literature review, the paper presents the statistical profile of US multinational companies,...

This discussion paper aims to propose an indicator of emerging technological themes. The development of such indicator is justified due to the need to guide the Brazilian federal government in emerging discussions on the field of technological policy. In reality, the wide range of information...

This paper aims to identify the profile of innovation in Brazil in 2014, positioning the country in relation to the countries of the European Union. The paper analysed the indicators resulting from the innovation surveys carried out in Brazil and in these countries in 2014. Based on the results...

This paper discusses different ways to obtain military technology, examining: the autonomous development; the cooperative development in international governmental level; the cooperative development in international business; and technology transfer. For that, the article presents the demand for...

This paper discusses the university-enterprise interactions in the Brazilian innovation system by focusing on the characteristics of the research infrastructure which affects its propensity to interact with the industrial sector. Logistic regressions have been used to identify, in a wide set of...

The state capacity to formulate, supervise, and implement (and in some cases to evaluate) science, technology, and innovation policy is the subject of the present work. The goal is to compare state and policy capacity in Brazil, China, and Argentina to point out comparative institutional...

The aim of this study is to analyze the characteristics and dynamic performance of the Water Resources Sector Fund of the Ministry of Science and Technology (CT-Hidro/MCT) as a result of the partnership between the Ipea and the Brazil´s MCT. Quantitative and qualitative aspects, as well as...

This article describes the characteristics of the Brazilian financial support for research on renewable energy within the Innovation Sector Funds, managed by the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI). The main objective of this paper is to identify the profile of this support...