This paper aims to add evidence on the role played by firms' technological competencies in the determination of their intensity of cooperation with other firms. Using a database composed by patents jointly filcd by two or more firms in the European Patent Office, the paper confronts the...

Dynamics of market concentration in the Brazilian industry, 1996-2003 - The aim of this paper is to study the changes in market concentration in the Brazilian mining and manufacturing industries that took place from 1996 to 2003. The paper decomposes the Herfindahl-Hirschman index into...

The paper aims to add information on the increase of structural heterogeneity in the Brazilian industry. Using data from the Industrial Annual Survey, the paper concludes that: (i) there is an increase in the structural heterogeneity of the Brazilian industry, if one analyzes the increase in...

This paper aims to add evidence to the literature on the internationalization of R&D of transnational enterprises. It focus on two main topics of the process: (i) the relation between the degree of internationalization and host country technological capabilities, and (ii) the role played by...