Technology appropriation in knowledge economy: innovation and intellectual property in Latin American software industry Intellectual property rights aim at providing incentives for innovation, but can also constitute a burden for technological diffusion. This article discusses the conflicts...

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...

This paper aims to evaluate the relationship between technological appropriation and export performance of Brazilian industrial firms. The correlation between innovation and exports has been widely presented in the literature. Innovative firms tend to be more export intensive, compared to...

Brazil has evolved strikingly in the last few years in the area of health assistance and access to medicines by its aging and urbanizing population. The government has also set the health industry - which includes pharmaceutical innovation - as one of its strategic sectors to be developed in the...

Brazil has evolved strikingly in the last few years in the area of health assistance and access to medicines by its aging and urbanizing population. The government has also set the health industry - which includes pharmaceutical innovation - as one of its strategic sectors to be developed in the...

This paper aims to evaluate the relationship between technological appropriation and export performance of Brazilian industrial firms. The correlation between innovation and exports has been widely presented in the literature. Innovative firms tend to be more export intensive, compared to...