The Brazilian investment in science and technology

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

R. Pinheiro-machado¹  P.l. De Oliveira¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Departamento de Bioquímica MédicaRio de Janeiro RJ ,Brasil

关键词: science and technology;    research and development;    patents;    technological innovation;    scientific publication;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-879X2001001200003

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

An analysis of Brazilian federal expenditures in science and technology is presented is this study. The 1990-1999 data were compiled from records provided by two federal agencies (MCT and CNPq) responsible for managing most of the national budget related to these activities. The results indicate that the federal investments in Brazilian science and technology stagnated during the last decade (US$ 2.32 billion in 1990, US$ 2.39 billion in 1996, and US$ 2.36 billion in 1999). In contrast, a great increase in private investments in research was acknowledged both by industry and by the government during the same period, from US$ 2.12 to US$ 4.64 billion. However, this investment did not result in an increase in invention patents granted to residents (492 in 1990 and only 232 in 1997) or in a reduction of patent costs. Despite this unfavorable scenario, the number of graduate programs in the country has increased two-fold in the last decade and the contribution of Brazilians to the database of the Institute for Scientific Information has increased 4.7-fold from 1990 (2,725 scientific publications) to 2000 (12,686 scientific publications). Unstable federal resources for science, together with the poor returns of private resources in terms of developing new technologies, may jeopardize the future of Brazilian technological development.

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