This paper examines the importance of geographic distance for the occurrence of knowledge flows between countries and how this importance has been changing over time. The main channels for knowledge flows are presented and an econometric analysis conducted with a focus on knowledge flows...

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 analysis of the domestic content of exports has called the attention of a number of authors in the last years, with the growing importance of global value chains. As long as manufacturing production is increasingly fragmented between several countries and firms, the country responsible for...

The genetic engineering techniques are essential in modern agriculture and, at the same time, demand regulation on several levels. The diffusion of planting genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has grown since 1996, notably in the United States, Argentina and Canada. In Brazil, the production...

The paper analyzes the process of Brazilian deindustrialization from the perspective of the transformations occurred in the global economic system in the last three decades. Realizes the performance of the Brazilian industry in the international economy from the technological, productive,...

This article aims to foster the national defense debate by arguing against the expectative in favor of the linkage between military technology, on one side, and combatant capacity and economic development, on another one. This article argues: i) a definition of technology that entails on a...

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...

Applying econometric models on panel data, we analyzed the possible relation between the increase in broadband Internet access density in Brazil and the GDP and GDP per capita growth. Broadband access densities, GDP, GDP per capita and the population education level data were disaggregated at...

The paper asks whether the creation of Mercosul has resulted in any increase in the exports technology intensity of its member countries and whether it has resulted in an increase of its exports. For that purpose, the authors have utilized an indicator of export technology intensity. The first...