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Innovation in Brazil: Advancing Development in the 21st Century book cover

1st Edition

Innovation in Brazil Advancing Development in the 21st Century

Edited By Elisabeth B. Reynolds, Ben Ross Schneider, Ezequiel Zylberberg Copyright 2019
374 Pages
by Routledge

374 Pages 72 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

374 Pages 72 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Since the early 2000s, state-led and innovation-focused strategies have characterized the approach to development pursued in countries around the world, such as China, India, and South Korea. Brazil, the largest and most industrialized economy in Latin America, demonstrates both the opportunities and challenges of this approach. Over the course of nearly 20 years, the Brazilian government enacted... Read more

Introduction: Innovation in Brazil: Advancing Development in the 21st Century Part I The Political Economy of Innovation 1. Institutions, Politics, and State-led Innovation 2. Accelerating Innovation in Brazil in the Age of Global Value Chains 3. Innovation Policy in Brazil Since 2003: Advances, Incoherencies, and Discontinuities Part II Towards a Knowledge Economy: Knowledge Creation and Diffusion 4. Science and Innovation in Brazil: Where to Now? 5. Benchmarking University/Industry Research Collaboration in Brazil 6. Universities as Engines of Innovation: The Context for Tech Transfer in Case Studies from Brazil and the U.S. Part III Institutional Innovations 7. Institutional Dimensions of Innovation Policy in Brazil 8. Beyond Research and Technology Organization (RTO) Benchmarking: Towards a Typology of Innovation Intermediaries 9. Beyond the Silicon Valley Consensus: Understanding the Organizational Challenges and Opportunities for Promoting Innovation in Brazil 10. Building Trust in Innovation: The Case of EMBRAPII Part IV Firms, Industries and Innovation in the Global Economy 11. Brazil’s Promise: Boosting Productivity for Shared Prosperity 12. Resource-Led Industrial Development in the Oil and Gas Global Value Chain: The Case of Brazil 13. Innovation in Advanced Energy: Towards a Mission-Oriented Agenda for Second-Generation (2G) Ethanol in Brazil 14. The Political Economy of Collective Learning in Generic Pharmaceuticals

Biography

Elisabeth B. Reynolds is Executive Director of MIT’s Industrial Performance Center and Lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.





Ben Ross Schneider is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and Director of the MIT-Brazil program.





Ezequiel Zylberberg is a Research Affiliate at MIT’s Industrial Performance Center.

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