DEPENDENT AND SUBORDINATE TRAJECTORY: ELEMENTS OF THE SINGULARITY OF BRAZILIAN INNOVATIVE DELAY

Abstract

In the institutionalist evolutionary perspective the innovative dynamics constitutes the epicenter of the transformation in the capitalist economies. It is understood that this theoretical perspective makes it possible to approach the national economic trajectories from their singularities, contributing to the analysis of the relative backwardness of economies such as the Brazilian one demonstrating that it has been characterized by a dependent and at the same time subordinate position, with regard to the innovative processes constantly under way in the international economy. It is considered that, despite contributing to systemic innovations, at least since the 1950s, Brazil has had difficulties in developing endogenous innovative processes, mainly due to the way in which foreign companies have been involved in the domestic industry since the beginning of the second half of the twentieth centur