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P-014De-constructing State-supported Research in Brazil: The Evolution ofDecentralized Innovation PolicyAntonio Botelho, PUC-Rio, BrazilMariza Almeida, Unisuam, BrazilIn the course of the last decade Brazil research productivity accelerated, driven by rising research expenditures. As early as thelate nineties, the scale and scope of state-supported research increased, federalist demands to correct regional disparitiesreached the fore of the science policy agenda. In order to politically sustain the budgetary momentum, the Brazilian state beganto decentralize its research policy towards its 26 federative units. These have widely different levels of social and economicdevelopment, research infrastructure and human resources and institutional capacity and arrangement.A singular characteristic of Brazil’s innovation system is that the university is the locus of innovation, particularly in hightechnologyareas, rather than the firm as in OECD countries (Póvoa, 2008). Although universities and public research institutesrepresented about 1.6% of patents deposits in Brazil by residents, they accounted for 56.3% of deposits in the area ofbiotechnology and 45% in organic chemistry. Póvoa (2008) and Rapini et al. (2006) suggest that because of the weak involvementof firms in R&D activities in immature national system of innovation, universities relationship with firms has a dual role, either asa complement or as a substitute, in part due to the industrial structure and competitive dynamics of the Brazilian economy, withstrong variations across sectors, and in part due to the concentration of researchers in universities.In fact, in the next moment with the rapid expansion of innovation financing from the passing the 2005 Innovation Law and therenewed claims by the Brazilian federation units to the local nature of innovation, the de-construction of the Brazilian statesupportedresearch deepened. The Technological Innovation Law No. 10.973/2004 was an important watershed as it establishedinnovation incentive measures and situated scientific and technological research within a productive environment, seeking tocreate technological autonomy and industrial development in Brazil. This law aimed at encouraging strategic partnershipsbetween universities, technological institutes and companies; stimulating the participation of science and technology institutesin the innovation process; and creating incentives for innovation within companies.The paper maps and assesses the evolution of a decentralized innovation policy in Brazil, its key mechanisms and mainprograms, and concludes by discussing its consequences upon the deconstruction of state-supported research.It tracks and analyzes in detail the trajectory and regional institutional impact of two main decentralized policies for universityindustrycooperation (PAPPE) and MSME business innovation financing (PAPPE Subvenção). Next, it explores research andinnovation State and regional policy learning and the transformation of their structure and governance. It concludes that the rapidrise of innovation policy and the structural and process demands it has imposed upon the Brazilian state have radically alteredthe form and the function of state-supported research in the country.References:Centro de Gestão em Estudos Estratégicos. 2008. “Descentralização do Fomento Federal: Estudos de Caso de ProgramasFinanciados com Recursos dos Fundos Setoriais de CT&I: PAPPE & PPP”. Brasília.Centro de Gestão em Estudos Estratégicos. 2009. “Descentralização e Parcerias em Políticas e Programas de CT&I ProgramasPAPPE e PAPPE Subvenção – Condições institucionais e características de distribuição (regional, estadual e intraestadual)”.Charles F. Sabel (1995), “Learning by Monitoring: The Institutions of Economic Development” em N. Smelser and R. Swedberg,eds., Handbook of Economic Sociology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press: 137-165.Charles F. Sabel (1996) “A measure of federalism: assessing manufacturing technology centers”. Research Policy, 25 (2): 281-307.Fiesp (2007), Sondagem Necessidades de Inovação na Indústria Paulista 2007. São Paulo, SP: FIESP.Póvoa, L M C (2008) A crescente importância das universidades e institutos públicos de pesquisa no processo de catching-uptecnológico. R. Econ. contemp., Rio de Janeiro, 12( 2), 273-300.Rapini, M.; Albuquerque, E. M.; Silva, L.; Souza, S.; Righi, H.; Cruz, W. (2006) Spots of interaction: an investigation on therelationship between firms and universities in Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte: UFMG/Cedeplar. (Texto para Discussão n. 286).Madrid, October 20, 21 & 22 - 201038

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