Reinventing industrial policy at the frontier: catalysing learning and innovation in Brazil

Paola Perez-Aleman and Flavia Chaves Alves

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2017, vol. 10, issue 1, 151-171

Abstract: Our argument revalidates and advances the idea of learning that is central to literatures on economic development, innovation and industrial policy. Global shifts where developing countries are advancing and innovating at the technological frontier challenge the conventional view of learning that focused on adapting existing technologies from advanced economies to build domestic firms’ capabilities. Our research contributes to capture new dynamics of innovation, emerging technologies and government industrial policy, crucial in the learning perspective. Our field study of Brazilian government programmes in the bio-based industry illustrates how industrial policy is reinvented to catalyse firm innovation at the technological frontier.

Keywords: bio-based industry; Brazil; economic development; industrial policy; innovation; Latin America; learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 O25 O31 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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