Agenda de Inovação no Brasil

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the responses of innovation policies to the contours of the economic process in Brazil in the recent period. Data were obtained from secondary sources, notably reports, regulations and official statistical databases available on Ministries websites. It is assumed that innovation is a relational socioeconomic process whose achievement depends always on a complex network of actors and difficult changes in social practices. The study is guided by the conjecture that the achievement of an agenda of combined policies of induction, regulation and economic competition would favorably the advancement of capacities, interactions and complementarities of the productive actors towards the formation of innovation systems. This required, among other factors, new concertations between forces from the public sector and the private sector, since traditional productive actors would tend to resist the process, failing to engage with the agenda, triggering power resources to pressure state actors to support and legitimize reproduction of its scope of action, and obliterating the unfolding of the process.