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P-024THE INFLUENCY OF CAMPINAS (BRAZIL) HIGH TECHNOLOGY POLE ON INNOVATIONCAPACITY OF LOCAL INDUSTRYJosiane Fachini Falvo, Ricardo Cifuentes da Silva, Instituto de Economia - Unicamp, BrazilFeliciello Domenico, Núcleo de Estudos em Políticas Públicas - Unicamp, BrazilEduardo Gurgel do Amaral, Agência de Inovação INOVA da UNICAMP - Unicamp, BrazilThe advanced economies try to apply public policies which the main aim is building reference centers that are able to attractinvestments and to promote the knowledge diffusion to another spaces. The concentration of the science and technologicaldevelopment processes are an important factor to make real these centers. High technologies poles are a kind of concentration,so its technological and scientific make possible a connection between interdisciplinary networks to national and internationalresearch, which enlarges the local capacity to produce high level knowledge. A study about the assimilation of innovativecontent in 23 locals, in six countries, Lester and Sotarauta (2007) introduces international cases about building innovation localsystems. This study emphasizes the idea about the importance of poles and show that presence of universities is a differentialto enlarge the generation of knowledge and the integrations between different areas in technologies studies. The CampinasMetropolitan Area is characterized like a innovation, scientific and technological regional pole, and it’s recognized over the worldby a research did by PNUD in 2001. It’s one of 46 locals in the world classified as innovation hubs. To build this situation, thereare contributions not just for a lot of research centers and universities located in this area, like the Campinas’ University State(UNICAMP), but also a lot of business that invest in research, development and innovation. Because of that, this area presentsa great proportion of innovative enterprises if you compares to national average. However, this area still shows deficits about theintegration between knowledge chain, innovation generation process and modernization of techniques applied on local productivesector, that means a lack of good mechanism to cause a better dynamic in the relationship between research institutions,industry and local government. A research done in 2009 with business that uses technological basis in Campinas’ area showeda light relationship between the technological pole and the productive sector. Local industry knows about the quality of theknowledge produced, but they have difficulties to build an approach and partnership with research centers and universities.These enterprises hope for more actions by local government to establish public policies that promote a good environment forthe innovative and technological development to enlarge the potential to generate new enterprises and to attract productiveinvestments in intensive technological fields. In the case of Campinas Area, the components of the triple helix are present, butthey also are very representative individually. However, in despite of the region has al the elements that are necessary to builda innovation local system, the integration process have weak points that have influence in the system working and make harda better using by local enterprises. The aim of this paper is to analyse, indentify the gaps in the Campinas’ local innovationsystem and to offer suggestions to solve this kind of problems.Madrid, October 20, 21 & 22 - 201090