Políticas de apoio à inovação: uma análise do Estado de Minas Gerais

Abstract

The role of policies in support of innovation has been subject of discussion in developed countries as well as in developing ones. This debate is due to the fact that public agents are able to not only improve technological capacity in enterprises, but also search for means to promote the needed structure for such investments to occur. The goal of the current study is the analysis of policies of innovation carried out by the state of Minas Gerais, with the intention of verifying the complementarities or not among the instruments supporting innovation carried out both in the Federal and State spheres. Within the achieved results in the study, stands out that the efforts of the state of Minas Gerais to promote innovations- somewhat recent and scarce- can be considered positive and complimentary to the Federal efforts in the search for increasing the innovative rhythm in companies.