Gonçalves, Eduardo; Lemos, Mauro Borges; Negri, João … - Associação dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em … - 2005
The aim of this paper is to analyze the innovating effort of the Brazilian industrial firms, which comprises … manufacturing and mining activities. Why do Brazilian industrial firms differ strongly in their effort to innovate? Our hypothesis … is that these differences in firms' behavior to innovate come from the huge sectoral technological heterogeneity and …