Collaboration with university and other public research organisations seems to have become increasingly important for firms, as the technological interdisciplinarity and complexity, and the competitive pressures to shorten ...

Governments in developing (and developed) countries spend large sums to attract foreign companies (e.g. $300,000 per job created in Brazil). But there is only one welfare justification for subsidizing MNCs: that they ...

This research investigates patterns in the organization of innovation in subsidiaries and the role of innovation projects in integrating knowledge between the multinational companies and technological partners in the host ...

The main objective of this paper is at analyzing how innovation process can contribute to improve equality in highly unequal societies, taking the example of Brazil. Using as analytical framework the Innovation System ...

Despite the proliferation of studies on the creation of firms’ capabilities (learning) and on the nature of capabilities (as sources of firms’ competitive advantage), especially from the early 1990s, there have been only ...

High and rising levels of labor productivity are at the core of a nation’s development. The growth of the labor productivity of any people is a function of its ability to absorb, improve and create technologies. Although ...

Ethanol has been recently of great interest worldwide due to two main reasons. First, it is a viable alternative to oil products, used in light vehicles, which price has been substantially raised in the last years. In ...