Convergence between the industrial policy, science, technology and innovation: the Brazilian reality in a neo-schumpeterian perspective in the 90 and recent period

Abstract

The article explain that the possibilities to improve the economic innovative capacity is necessary to built the convergence between the Industrial, Science and Technology and Innovation Policy, that it is not, however, natural nor automatic. This convergence depends on the understanding the nature, objectives and instruments that can be created in form to establish the ‘division of the labor’ between them. The Science and Technology Policy focus on the (basic and applied) knowledge creation that it must be pervasive to the enterprise decisions. The Innovation Policy creates the incentives for the combination, by the firm, of such knowledge, aiming to exploitation of opportunities perceived in the scope of the production and services. Given these premises, the article continues searching to identify in the Brazilian case, in the 90 and the recent period, indications of the existence (or the lack) of this convergence and its consequences for the Brazilian System of Innovation.