Summary: | This work presents the process of the Brazilian scientific-technological community building,
having as backstage the political context and the technology based industries generation
efforts. The research methodology was, in the greatest possible extent, centered in the
examination of official and undisputed available literature and Ministry of Science and
Technology reports besides public domain world R&D budgeting data. The article, also,
evaluates incentives to the country technological R&D, establishing a comparative picture of
the R&D investments carried out by selected countries, considered technologically advanced
or proficient in a specific high technological issue. At the end are discussed some questions
related to the Brazilian R&D strategy outline and innovation future policy.
Keywords: Science and Technology, Research and Development, Innovation, Policy
Formulation.
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