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Innovation in Brazil by technological intensity: cooperation and nationality of ownership

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  • Milene Simone Tessarin
  • Wilson Suzigan, Joaquim Jose Martins Guilhoto

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This article analyze the innovative effort of the manufacturing companies that cooperated to innovate from those that innovated without cooperation, segmented by technological categories and origin of controlling capital. Special data with information’s from Pintec/IBGE has been used. The contribution is contrasting companies that innovated with and without cooperation, since this comparison has not yet been studied. Results showed that cooperation is decisive to differentiate innovative efforts, regardless of the technological category. The origin of controlling capital did not represent a distinctive factor. The cooperation was mainly made with customers and suppliers, and another group company overseas to foreign firms, despite the literature focus on cooperation with universities and research institutes. It is concluded that innovating with cooperation generates better innovative efforts, thus, stimulate companies to cooperate can increase Brazilian innovation

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  • Milene Simone Tessarin & Wilson Suzigan, Joaquim Jose Martins Guilhoto, 2019. "Innovation in Brazil by technological intensity: cooperation and nationality of ownership," Working Papers, Department of Economics 2019_06, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP).
    • Handle: RePEc:spa:wpaper:2019wpecon06
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    Keywords

    Innovation; Cooperation to innovate; Manufacturing; Technological intensity; Industrial development.;
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    JEL classification:

    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • P13 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Cooperative Enterprises
    • L10 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - General

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