Concentração regional das atividades de ciência e tecnologia (C&T) no Brasil e intensidade tecnológica na indústria : uma análise em nível estadual nos anos 2000

Abstract

This dissertation aims to establish a current view of the concentration of S&T activities in the country through the development of S&T indicators in Brazil, analyzing the data in the national context. The selected period is the year 2000 to the present (2009/2010) and is used secondary data obtained from databases of official institutions, such as the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT), Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). The indicators focuses the dimensions government priority to S&T , Manufacturing Science and Technology and Basic Education and availability of qualified human resources, selected according to the work of Rocha and Ferreira (2004). Performed this analysis aims to select five Brazilian states with the best indicators of S&T, each representing a geographic region according to the division of the IBGE, in order to verify the technological intensity of its industry through the data from IRP, organized according to the classification of the OECD (1994) and compare indicators of S&T and technological intensity of industry in selected states.