Competitiveness doctrine and the public policy for R&D: recent evidence and criticaI views
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Since the earIy 90's the definition of public policies in Brazil has included a discussion about coordination and commitment issues which happen to discourage the search for industty-wide competitiveness. Whereas the initial scope of the new guidelines laid stress on research privatization as well as on the purpose of promoting both high-tech and basic technoIogy oriented
research, from the mid-90's on policymakers started focussing on the objective of restructuring the technoIogica1ly mature industries by means of acquiring (foreign) technoIogy. By Iooking into the US experience, there is evidence that research privatization has implied discouraging broad-use technoIogies
as we11 as jeopardizing the efficient running of behavioral norms and of reward systems as related to the organization of research. According to this paper's authOl; recent work on the new economics of science and research is crucial to devise new mechanisms and new institutional formats to help designing efficient R&D policies
research, from the mid-90's on policymakers started focussing on the objective of restructuring the technoIogica1ly mature industries by means of acquiring (foreign) technoIogy. By Iooking into the US experience, there is evidence that research privatization has implied discouraging broad-use technoIogies
as we11 as jeopardizing the efficient running of behavioral norms and of reward systems as related to the organization of research. According to this paper's authOl; recent work on the new economics of science and research is crucial to devise new mechanisms and new institutional formats to help designing efficient R&D policies
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Jorge, M. J. (1998). Competitiveness doctrine and the public policy for R&D: recent evidence and criticaI views. Brazilian Journal of Public Administration, 32(3), 135 a 158. Retrieved from https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/7738
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