Industrial Policy Changes and Firm-level Technological Capability Development in the Context of Late Industrialisation: Evidence from Brazil

Author(s): 
Paulo N Figueiredo
Year: 
2006
Abstract: 
This paper seeks to offer an alternative perspective on the issues of changes in policy regime and firm-level technological capability development. The paper draws on a sample of 46 firms, local firms and TNC subsidiaries  located in a developing area of a large late-industrializing country: the Industrial Pole of Manaus in Northern Brazil.
Publisher: 
Getulio Vargas Foundation/EBAPE
Organisation: 
University of Sussex
Economic Regulation