pursue structural change in practice. Overall our results show that structural change is driven by R&D industries in Brazil … equally distributed, especially in Brazil. Hence, efforts to shift resources from traditional NR industries towards more … technological intensive ones also thanks to the adoption of technology foresight policies are of foremost importance since they …

preferences is used to show that after some minimum level of average income relative to the price of the technology is achieved … diffusion of new technology, while a large middle class is conducive to technology diffusion. These effects are stronger for … positive effect of inequality on technology adoption. Chapter 2 introduces a model of creative destruction with non …