Leandro Alves Silva

University—industry interactions in an immature system of innovation: Evidence from Minas Gerais, Brazil

This paper evaluates interactions between firms and universities in Minas Gerais, one of the Brazilian states. The heterogeneity in Minas Gerais replicates the heterogeneity that exists in Brazil as a whole. This paper adapts the pioneering Yale and Carnegie Mellon surveys (USA) to an immature national system of innovation. We found that, in immature systems of innovation, beyond their traditional functions, universities perform a dual role in their interactions with firms: they substitute for and complement the research and development done by the firms themselves. In addition, contrary to conventional wisdom, even in the so-called low-tech and medium-tech sectors, universities matter. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Diferenciação intersetorial na interação entre empresas e universidades no Brasil

This article presents results based on special tabulations prepared by IBGE, using data from PINTEC in order to focus on the interaction between firms and universities in the Brazilian industry. The basic hypothesis states that the relevance of universities as a source of information to the firms’ innovation activities is greater when firms are engaged in R&D activities (both internal and external). The hypothesis is not rejected neither for the general industry nor for inter-sectorial analysis.

Produção científica e tecnológica das regiões metropolitanas brasileiras

Este artigo faz uma avaliacao da producao cientifica e tecnologica das regioes metropolitanas no Brasil a partir de estatisticas de patentes (depositadas no INPI) e de artigos cientificos (indexados pelo ISI). O trabalho esta dividido em cinco secoes. A secao 1 resenha brevemente a literatura sobre interacao entre ciencia e tecnologia, desde o ponto de vista da abordagem dos sistemas nacionais de inovacao. A secao 2 apresenta as bases de dados e um quadro geral da producao cientifica e tecnologica do Brasil. A secao 3 focaliza as regioes metropolitanas do Brasil, avaliando a distribuicao das atividades cientificas e tecnologicas entre elas e comparando-a com outros paises. A secao 4 avalia as diferentes especializacoes cientificas e tecnologicas das regioes metropolitanas avaliadas. A secao 5 conclui o trabalho.

Growth patterns of the network of international collaboration in science

International knowledge flows might be eroding national borders of innovation systems and contributing for the emergence of an international system of innovation. This paper investigates how far the scientific international collaboration has developed and how stable the structure of those collaborations is, evaluating the properties of those networks and their long term behaviour. The data collected and analyzed show that international collaboration has been growing with a peculiar pattern—faster than an exponential growth-, shaping a scale-free network that has preserved its structure while it grows. This paper analyses the properties of this network and the implications of those properties for an emerging global innovation system in terms of growth, hierarchy, opportunity, challenges, and robustness and for the generation and transfer of technology