David Kupfer’s contribution to the analysis of Brazilian innovation policy in the 2000s
Abstract
The main features of the Brazilian industrialization process and its consequences, with the external debt crisis in the 1990s and the changes brought by economic liberalization in the same decade, were themes intensely debated by David Kupfer throughout his fruitful academic career. More recently, when the deindustrialization process of the Brazilian economy advanced, Kupfer introduced the term “Brazilian industrial disease” to refer to the chronic crisis that impacted Brazilian industry over the last 40 years. In this discussion, one of the recurrent themes was the insufficiency of the science, technology, and innovation (S,T&I) policy implemented in the country in the 2000s to leverage the industrial development. This is the object of this article, when discussing the most recent results brought by the Innovation Survey (Pintec) in the light of Kupfer’s contributions. The decline of the S,T&I policy is made explicit in the latest edition of Pintec, in 2017, confirming aspects anticipated by the author in several works.
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