Overview of public innovation policies focusing on the Brazilian Industry

Abstract

Companies and countries have adopted Innovation as a competitive strategy. The National Innovation System supports private and public efforts to increase the country's innovative capacity. This study aims to identify the main public policies and instruments for the development of innovations focusing on the analysis of industry data. Methodologically, bibliographic research was chosen to identify the main public innovation policies implemented in Brazil, and quantitative research, through the comparative analysis of Pintec from the interstices from 2000 to 2017, focusing on the industrial sector in Brazil. From the analysis of the data, it can be understood that the closed innovation model still predominates in Brazil. Pintec data showed that product innovation is predominantly carried out within organizations without sharing with other companies or research institutes. In the period from 2000 to 2017, government investments were mostly concentrated in the area of ​​S&T, with 35% of expenditures. In 2017, the Federal Government of Brazil's expenditure on R&D was 1.34% of GDP. Only a little over a third of the industries have innovated in the results of the last Pintec. Most industries innovated with their resources, not with resources from government policies. Among the public policy mechanisms for innovation most used to innovate by companies is financing for the purchase of machinery and equipment.