Newly Industrialized Countries and the Information Technology Revolution: The Brazilian Experience Book

	List of tables
	Preface
	List of abbreviations
Ch. 1	Introduction
1.1	Establishing the object	1
1.2	Technological dependency in Brazil: some issues	3
1.3	Aims and issues	5
1.4	Structure of the book	7
1.5	Some methodological considerations	8
Pt. I	The historical and analytical frameworks
Ch. 2	The political economy of the Brazilian industrialization process: a review
2.2	Structural changes in the Brazilian economy: some figures for 1930/1980	16
2.3	Mercantile and industrial capitalism in Brazil: some historical roots	18
2.4	Establishing the grounds for the import-substitution model (1930/1955)	20
2.5	The second phase of the import-substitution model (1956/1963)	21
2.6	From import-substitution / populist State to export promotion / techno-bureaucratic state	23
2.7	The political 'distensao' and the deepening of import-substitution and diversification of exports regime of accumulation (1974/1979)	26
2.8	Technology and development: tensions between production and technological capabilities	29
Ch. 3	Setting up the analytical framework
3.2	Some basic characteristics of innovation	39
3.3	Innovation and economic change: from piecemeal to paradigms	41
3.4	Techno-economic paradigm as a category of analysis	44
3.5	Changes in techno-economic paradigms - some illustrations	46
3.6	From 'cheap energy/Fordist' techno-economic paradigm to 'chips/IT' techno-economic paradigm	47
3.7	An alternative (complement) to the techno-economic paradigm approach	49
3.8	Nations in the context of changing techno-economic paradigm	51
3.9	Market forms and innovation: some theoretical issues	53
3.10	Organized markets, innovation and nations: some political implications	54
3.11	National systems of innovation: stressing the territorial base of 'learning-by-interacting'	55
3.12	A three domains approximation to national systems of innovation	56
3.13	Theoretical reasons for the three domains	58
Pt. II	The Brazilian national system of innovation
Ch. 4	The economic domain
4.2	The Brazilian economy in the 1980s	75
4.3	The partnership of state-owned, local and multinational enterprises	81
4.4	Export drive	88
4.5	The production of machinery and equipment in the BNSI	90
4.6	The BNSI's early start in information technology	94
4.7	The Brazilian telecommunications sector	101
Ch. 5	The institutional domain
5.2	Institutions and modes of societalization	122
5.3	Some roots of Brazil's institutional dependence-path	123
5.4	New entrants in Brazilian polity	126
5.5	Institutional path-dependence and the change in the political regime	128
5.6	The new Constitution and new institutional frameworks	131
5.7	Economic agents' perceptions of the new paradigm	134
5.8	Technological development and the public debate	136
Ch. 6	The technological domain
6.2	Human resources	148
6.3	R&D activities	156
6.4	Science parks	160
6.5	Technological transfer	163
Ch. 7	Conclusions	173
	References	184