| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation deals with the technological trajectories of late industrialization countries
along with the Flexible Networks paradigm, in particular, the comparative analysis between
Brazil and India. The objective of this work is to understand the conditioning factors of the
technological trajectories of Brazil and India that impacted on the diffusion capacity of these
countries along the Flexible Networks paradigm. For this, the research seeks to answer the
following research problem: What are the conditioning factors that influenced the technological
diffusion capacity of Brazil and India in the Flexible Networks paradigm? And, therefore, how
did these conditioning factors impact the respective technological diffusion capacity of each
country? The research makes use of a discussion based on a little explored theoretical-analytical
framework: Schumpeterian, Evolutionary and Structuralist (SES). In this sense, the approach
to technological development in late industrializing countries presupposes state intervention in
promoting technological asymmetries as a means of overcoming structural heterogeneity. The
research is structured through a qualitative approach. As a method of approach, the research is
defined by the historical-comparative instrument. As a method of technical procedure, the
research makes use of the Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), in particular, the FuzzySet (fsQCA). Through this instrument, the dissertation performs an adaptation of the theoretical
model of technological trajectories for countries in the process of catching-up, proposed by
Kim, in an adapted analytical model, capable of being operationalized under fuzzy logic. As a
result of the investigation, there is the recognition of different routes of technological
development along the Paradigm of Flexible Networks. The Brazilian technological trajectory
was defined from an integration with foreign capital. However, the limited ability to transfer
learning to national entities expressed Brazil's technological dependence. In turn, the Indian
technological trajectory was historically constituted through a limited integration into
international trade. From the confluence of domestic efforts with the emergence of new
international productive dynamics, there is the consolidation of the country as a player in the
global information industry. However, the limited expansion of its growth pattern along with
other sectors of the economy is evidenced by negative technological balances in high, mediumhigh and medium technology sectors. Finally, processing the fsQCA illustrates the combination
of constraints linked to the number of articles in scientific and technical journals, spending on
research and development (% of GDP) and the number of patents filed, by residents, in
determining the added value to the industry in the Information sector (key industrial sector in
the Flexible Networks paradigm) to India, between 1999-2002 and 2003-2006. The absence of
Brazil, among the combinations of conditions capable of deliberating the added value to the
domestic industry in the Information sector, illustrates that the cases of the country, between
1995 and 2018, did not meet the software parameters, corroborating the technological
limitations of Brazil. | |
