IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/euc/ancoec/v36y2009p119-139.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

O atraso tecnológico da América Latina como decorrência de aspectos geográficos e de fatores microeconômicos interligados

Author

Listed:
  • Feldmann, Paulo Roberto

Abstract

The technological backwardness of Latin America as a consequence of geographical and microeconomics related factors - The present paper deals with the relation between geographical conditions in a specific region and the occurrence of innovations. The objective is to analyze the reasons for the backwardness of Latin America in matters related to technology development. The article?s approach is to observe the largest companies of the region, trying to understand why they almost never are part of the high technology industries. In order to get these explanations, the article mentions many authors that have dedicated themselves to this subject, paying more attention to those who had made comparisons with other regions in the world, specially Asia. The aim here was to characterize the geographic circumstances that were decisive to the occurrence of innovations. The results are deeply alarming not only because of the low number of Latin American companies that have reached worldwide recognition, but also because, almost always, these few companies came from where the technology content is very low.

Suggested Citation

  • Feldmann, Paulo Roberto, 2009. "O atraso tecnológico da América Latina como decorrência de aspectos geográficos e de fatores microeconômicos interligados," Revista Economia e Sociedade, Instituto de Economia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), vol. 36, pages 1-21, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:euc:ancoec:v:36:y:2009:p:119-139
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.eco.unicamp.br/docdownload/publicacoes/instituto/revistas/economia-e-sociedade/V18-F1-S36/04%20EconomiaSociedade%20Artigo4.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Geography; Innovation; Latin America; Business environment; Technological delay.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:euc:ancoec:v:36:y:2009:p:119-139. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Antonio Carlos Macedo e Silva (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ieuecbr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.