Technology, Competitiveness and Radical Policy Change - The Case of Brazil

List of contents

Part 1 Technology and industrial competitiveness in the context of import substitution - general reflections and experience from Brazil: import substitution, technology development, and technology policy in developing countries; import substitution in Brazil - industrialization and technological development in the face of weak competitive pressure; crisis of import-substituting industrialisation and the political system in Brazil. Part 2 Technology, innovation and industrial competitiveness - the discussion in the OECD-countries - prospects for Brazil: technology, innovation, and industrial competitiveness; technology policy for industrial competitiveness - on the discussion in the OECD countries; towards competitiveness - structural change in Brazilian industry and politics; general conclusions for developing countries - points of departure for a new technology policy. Tables: types of technology transfers; trends of foreign direct investments, 1948-88; changes in Brazil's education system.

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Meyer-Stamer, Jörg

Summary

This volume investigates the limited effectiveness of technology policy in the inward-oriented industrialization model of the past.

Product details

• Authors: J Meyer-Stamer, Joerg Meyer-Stamer, Jorg Meyer-Stamer, Jörg Meyer-Stamer, J�rg Meyer-Stamer
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138419186
• ISBN: 978-1-138-41918-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies