The theoretical framework developed by the Transaction Costs Economics has been used by several authors to improve theproduction system different actors’ relationships comprehension. However, Transaction Costs Theory application in agri-industrialSystems have been infrequently treated in...

The paper discusses the city and the region aiming at unfolding a synthetic panorama of the various ways of thinking and acting upon the spatial issue. We argue that a better understanding of how the different scientific disciplines with interfaces on the territory view and work with space...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the sectoral funds directed to agribusiness (CTAgribusiness). Besides presenting the national system of agricultural innovation in Brazil, the study shows the dynamic of technological development related to agribusiness sectoral funds. A description of the...

Faced with the extremely heterogeneous reality of small businesses and aware of the different criteria and legal structure, existing in Brazil, to its classification and framework, this paper aims to highlight the need to establish a set of articulated objectives, the target audience and the...

The main objective of this paper is to compare the European Union's (EU) Regional Policy with the Regional Policy in Brazil. In this context, the transformations that have occurred in the last two decades in the policies and instruments that promote the economic and social development of the...

This paper debates on modernization of Brazilian agriculture, presents the construction process of the sector's national innovation system and the role of Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), as well as shows Brazil's competitive insertion in the international market of...

The consolidation of a new legal framework for Brazilian urban policy has been emphasizing the possibility of citizen participation and social inclusion in urban policies. At the same time, current socio-spatial inequalities contribute to cities with increasingly complex problems and a reduction...

The current study consists in an analysis of the set of federal public policies of the Brazilian government aimed at the segment of micro, small and medium enterprises. It is not an evaluation of their impacts, but only a mapping of existent policies and a first analysis of their coverage. This...

This study aims to present a systematic identification of themes and questions related to economic, social and demographic transformations in operation on national territory in the 2003-2015 period. A balance of efforts, advances and difficulties to implement the national regional policy (PNDR)...

This study presents a typology designed to investigate territories impacted by public policies through the 2003-2015 period. For such, it was done a mapping of analysis and of stylized facts that represent the most relevant spatial transformations due to public and private expenditures and...