Private institutions of R&D in Brazil : an analysis of the information and communication tecnhonologies sector / Institutos privados de P&D no Brasil : uma analise do setor de tecnologias de informação e comunicação

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2008

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The thesis analyses the private non-profit Institutes of R&D in Brazil in the ICT sector from the perspective of their importance in innovation national system. Despite not having the intention of depleting the understanding on this player, emphasizes how its organized and how it faces the difficulties in order to ensure its existence. This is a relatively new player, effectively emerging from 90 s, occurring in state s role restructuring environment and markets globalization. In order to understand this context it s necessary to comprehend its existence motivation, how it s organized and what kind of goods it originates. Therefore, a case, including five representative institutions, was undertaken aiming this sector understanding. These are: CESAR - Center for Advanced Studies and Systems of Recife, CITS - International Centre for Software Technology, Institute of Research Eldorado, FITec - Foundation for Innovation and Technology Genius Institute of Technology. The work is organized in five chapters, on which the first discusses the question of R&D organization in the private non-profit segment considering the following components: externalities produced by public funding for R&D through private funding and also impacts from open models and less hierarchical structure adopted by these organizations. The second chapter relates to the discussion of Brazilian national innovation system considering its political apparatus and legal, which supports this sector demands. In the third, its presented some national and international institutions experience regarding the processes reorganization by which it has been through and the fourth the participating institutions of this thesis are presented, describing their trajectories within an organizational perspective, such as origin and its resources administration (human and financial), relationship networks established among system s different players, competencies and externalities produced by the sector. Therefore, the fifth and the last chapter proceeds the conclusions, which emphasizes this actor s importance for the national innovation system regarding to their scope and importance and also presents some proposals which could have national reach, considering that the difficulties and advances in this sector are very similar

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science and technology policy empresas - brasil privat reseach institutions tecnologia da informação information technology ciencia e tecnologia

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