Differences of innovative behavior among local and foreign companies in Brazil
This article aims to compare innovative behavior between multinational (EMN) and national ( ENA) firms in razil by sector of industrial activity. The variables of comparison are those traditionally recommended by literature (intensity of technological change, sources and results of innovation, learn...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2010 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Brasileira de Inovação (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8648993 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rbi/article/view/8648993 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | innovation foreign capital Brazil industry multinational corporations O31 Inovação. Capital estrangeiro. Brasil. Indústria. Empresas multinacionais. |
| Sumario: | This article aims to compare innovative behavior between multinational (EMN) and national ( ENA) firms in razil by sector of industrial activity. The variables of comparison are those traditionally recommended by literature (intensity of technological change, sources and results of innovation, learning and technological trajectory) and which are in Pintec 2003 from IBGE. The comparison is performed through the calculation of similarity indexes and correlation coefficients between the propensity to execute the different innovative activities between both groups (ENA and EMN) and by sectors, as well as indexes of technological autonomy and dependency. The main results show that: i) EMN have more propensity to be innovative, but not to be “highly innovative”; ii) for all variables examined and for most sectors, the differences in innovative behavior between the two groups are irrelevant in aggregate terms, which means that the innovative activity of the firm is more driven by sectorial technological imperatives; and iii) for most of the variables object of comparison, the sectors that have major differences in behavior are practically the same (manufacture of wearing apparel, metallurgy, other industrial products, refined petroleum products, motor vehicles, instruments and communications equipment), which suggest that the aspects related to structure and organization of the firm may be more relevant than the sectorial technological imperatives. |
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