Economia Aplicada (Feb 1999)

From technology absorption to technology production: industrial strategy and technological capacity in Brazil's development process

  • Edmund Amann,
  • Werner Baer

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1

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This article surveys the evolution of technology policy in Brazil from its inception to the present day, examining the changes that it has undergone along the way. Having sketched in the apropriate background, it goes on to discuss the broad technological impact of rapid liberalization in the 1990s.

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