Investimento estrangeiro direto e inovação: um estudo sobre ramos selecionados da indústria no Brasil / Foreign direct investment and innovation : a study of selected sectors of Brazilian industry

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

During the 90s, Brazilian economy has passed through structural and liberalizing reforms, besides an intense productive interntionalization. This study explores to what extent FDI helped or hindered those structural changes in industry, analyzing whether positive (or negative) productivity spillovers arose from the presence of TNCs affiates between 1998 and 2003 in some selected industrial chains, as manufacture of pharmaceuticals and manufacture of vegetable oils. The analyzis, based on firm-level data from industrial firms and panel data tchniques, produces evidences consistent with TNCs affilates having higher productivity levels than domestic firms. However, this ackowledge may serve as instruments for industrial policies. At last, the analysis points for the importance of exploring data for longer period of time and of multiplying specifc studies of sectors and firms.

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spillover inovação economia internacional fdi spillover indústria brasileira productivity ied innovation produtividade brazilian industry

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