The literature about the economics of science and technology (C&T) suggests not only that the technological innovation demands the expansion of the institutional borders between universities, research institutes, industrial firms and the financial system, but also that science leads as well as...

This paper conjectures about a disconnection between the scientific and the technological dimensions of the Brazilian health innovation system. Statistics of patents and scientific papers are used in the investigation of this conjecture. The international position of Brazil in regard to the...

Este artigo apresenta uma análise exploratória sobre os principais fatores que condicionam padrões de aprendizado, práticas cooperativas e desempenho inovativo em aglomerações produtivas no Brasil. Tal análise baseia-se em evidências empíricas oriundas de um conjunto de 28 estudos de...

Based on the recent literature about Local Productive Arrangements - LPAs, the analysis tries to build specific indicators to analyze those agglomerations. The indicators was elaborated based on information obtained form the questionnaire of the project "MPEs em Arranjos Produtivos Locais no...