This volume investigates the limited effectiveness of technology policy in the inward-oriented industrialization model of the past. It looks at the political structures that compromise the transition to the development model, and the restructuring effort within Brazilian industrial firms.

Meyer-Stamer, Jörg

Part 1 Technology and industrial competitiveness in the context of import substitution - general reflections and experience from Brazil: import substitution, technology development, and technology policy in developing countries; import substitution in Brazil - industrialization and technological development in the face of weak competitive pressure; crisis of import-substituting industrialisation and the political system in Brazil. Part 2 Technology, innovation and industrial competitiveness - the discussion in the OECD-countries - prospects for Brazil: technology, innovation, and industrial competitiveness; technology policy for industrial competitiveness - on the discussion in the OECD countries; towards competitiveness - structural change in Brazilian industry and politics; general conclusions for developing countries - points of departure for a new technology policy. Tables: types of technology transfers; trends of foreign direct investments, 1948-88; changes in Brazil's education system.