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A brief history of microelectronics in Brazil and the current policies are presented. The motivation and approach for transforming the federal government's key microelectronics research laboratory in an open access user facility are presented.
There are cities in Brazil which have evolved from their low tech agricultural origins to become important players in the high-tech field, as it is the case of Satildeo Joseacute dos Campos, in the State of Satildeo Paulo. Companies such as Embraer, Petrobraacutes, Johnson & Johnson, Monsanto, and General Motors are installed in the city, as well as R&D institutions, namely the General Command...
The paper is about the manufacturing role within the innovation process of companies in a multiproject and simple product development environment. The aim is to understand the management practices used by manufacturing in the product and process development. It is a multiple case study, conducted in Brazil, wherein three companies from different business sectors - cosmetics, candies and shoes - were...
This paper describes the successful application of management techniques to a R&D power project created for developing new technologies to reduce connection costs of low income customers to the power utility grid. Such innovations will speed up the process of extending the power supplying benefits to all inhabitants of the Bahia State, in Brazil, through a program called universalization. The...
This paper uses the functions of technological systems of innovation to compare the evolution of bioethanol for the transportation sector between the U.S. and Brazil. It argues that differences in how functions of innovation operate within each system can explain different performances of bioethanol development over time. Despite the economic crisis of the 1980s, Brazil's strong strategic guidance...
Many telecommunications service provider already dispose of the structure to provide convergent services, although they did not reach an increase on sales in accord with market, investors, and customer's expectations. Most of the incumbents is running their businesses based on a few "cash cow" services. The introduction of new telecommunications services seems not to follow the same rate...
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