industrial firms. The correlation between innovation and exports has been widely presented in the literature. Innovative firms … increase market leadership and monopolistic advantages. This study examines the relationship between innovation and exports in …

the Innovation Sector Funds, managed by the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI). The main objective of … United States of America's systems of support to the research and innovation. The study identified 1,893 research projects in …

This paper aims to analyze, from a legal perspective, the public policies of Science, Technology and Innovation offered … by the Brazilian government, more specifically, the Innovation Act (Lei de Inovação), in order to verify the … comparative method, this research seeks to answer, preliminarily, the following questions: a) What is innovation? b) The State …

In the last decades one of the main engines of foreign trade growth has been innovation, the process of embedding … knowledge in production processes. The purpose of this paper is to supply evidence favoring the hypothesis that innovation … between innovation and the likelihood of firms becoming exporters. Based on Heckman procedure, we also find evidence that …

therefore the dynamics of innovation in agriculture. Since the Protection of Plant Varieties Law (1997), the mechanisms of …

the data from the Innovation Survey 2011, published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). We … large (500 or more employees). The paper not only analyzed the innovation rates of such groups, but the degree of … market, accounting for about 3/4 full. Regarding the R&D efforts in low-tech sectors, the distance of SMEs to large firms is …

production with less environmental impact. This research aims to evaluate the process of technological innovation and integrated … of adequate planning and control of integrated production projects, indicating the need for management innovation as well …

characteristics of a cluster having as its basethe elements: cooperation, leadership and innovation. For this, it is reviewed on … theeconomic literature the fundamental theoretical concepts of firm, innovation andcompetition, presenting at the last section the …