O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar os impactos da redução do Imposto sobre Produtos Industrializados (IPI) sobre as vendas de veículos no Brasil entre janeiro e novembro de 2009. Para alcançar esse objetivo, foi estimado um modelo no qual as vendas internas de veículos são função do...

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a trajetória recente dos indicadores de inovação no Brasil, com base nos dados disponíveis nas quatro edições da Pesquisa de Inovação de Tecnológica (PINTEC), realizada pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). Com base na...

O objetivo deste trabalho é discutir a evolução das políticas de ciência, tecnologia e inovação (CT&I) no Brasil com base nos indicadores agregados de gastos em pesquisa e desenvolvimento (P&D) e de produção científica e tecnológica. A revisão bibliográfica subsidia a proposição...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the budget execution of the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) in the period between 2001 and 2010 in order to evaluate if changes in its composition would indicate a greater emphasis on systemic innovation policies. Data...

The aim of this work is to discuss the evolution of the science, technology, and innovation (ST&I) policies in Brazil using the aggregate indicators of research and development (R&D) expenditures and of scientific and technological production. The literature review supports the proposition that...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the path followed by the regional inequality indicators of science, technology, and innovation (ST&I) during the last decade. The literature review i) reasserts the association between ST&I and the economic and social development; and ii) indicates a high...

In this work, the coefficients that relate business climate, investments and productivity are estimated based upon a panel of 81 countries in the period between 2005 and 2011. Fixed effects panel regressions (which take into account omitted variables and, as a result, time invariant country...

In this paper it is shown that the wide acknowledgement of the association between innovation and economic and social development as well as of the relevance of innovation policies formed a kind of "misty consensus" hardly contested in Brazil. However, the innovation policies adopted in the...

The aim of this work is to analyze the evolution and the composition of the labor costs in the industrial sector in Brazil during the period between 1996 and 2012. The source of data is the Annual Survey of Mining and Manufacturing Industries (PIA) issued by the Brazilian Institute of Geography...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show that the wide acknowledgement of the association between innovation and economic and social development and of the importance of innovation policies has formed a kind of "misty consensus" hardly contested in Brazil. However, the innovation policies...