DIVERSIFICATION AND EXPERTISE PRODUCTION IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION GENERATION: AN APPLICATION FOR BRAZILIAN STATES

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to investigate how sensitive is the generation of innovation to the influences of the Brazilian states of externalities of industrial diversification and industrial specialization in the period 2001-2011. Furthermore, studying the behavior of innovation through the territory allows the inference of how public policies to encourage science and technology have acted in Brazil. Other determinants of innovation are also considered as the investment capacity of the states in science and technology, education level and lag of innovation. As a generation of innovation, deposits of patents per capita are used in order to measure the technological capacity of each state. The database used in this work consists of a combination of data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), data of patent applications at the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), data on spending on science and technology from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) and data on human capital of the Ministry of Education (MEC). The methodology addresses the Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) and spatial regression models with panel data. These procedures permitted to follow the trajectory of innovation through the territory in the period and the main legal framework of the Brazilian innovation were studied in order to establish if these efforts contributed to the strengthening of regional innovation policy.