Survey of Technological Innovation
Survey of Technological Innovation 2008
The Survey of Technological Innovation, conducted by the IBGE with the support of the Research and Projects Financing - FINEP and of the Ministry of Science and Technology, has the objective of constructing national and regional indicators of the technological innovation activities developed in the Brazilian industrial enterprises with 10 or more employed persons. The scope of the survey encompasses the activities of manufacturing and quarrying industries, selected services - edition, telecommunication, computer science - and Research and Development - P&D.
As a continuation to the series started with the 2000 PINTEC, the results now obtained , in this fourth edition of the survey, update the information about innovative activities conducted by Brazilian companies in the period of 2006 to 2008. They are based on the 2.0 version of the National Classification of Econômic Activities - CNAE.
Several topics are included in this publication such as the efforts made to innovate; identification of the influence of the innovations in the performance and competitiveness of the companies; sources of information and relations of co-operations established with other organizations; support of the government to the innovative activities; identification of the problems and obstacles for the implementation of innovations; organizational and marketing inovation, among other aspects.
The publication includes technical notes with methodological aspects about the survey, a brief analysis of the aggregated results, annexes with coefficients of variation estimated for the selected variables, as well as a glossary with the concepts of the variables presented in the tables. The CD-ROM enclosed in the publication brings, besides the information in the printed volume, the results obtained by the survey in 2000, 2003 and 2005, based on CNAE 1.0, for total Brazil, by activities and by groups of employed persons, as well as industrial information by Major Regions and selected Federation Units.
That information can also be found in IBGE web site on the Internet, which additionally provides the 2008 national results in the CNAE 1.0 version, as to allow comparison with previous surveys.
The construction of the indicators regarding the process of technological innovation follows international methodological patterns and contributes for the understanding of the process of industrial development guaranteeing its comparability with data of other countries. These indicators help companies perform market analyses, trade unions conduct specific studies on sectors, and government develop and evaluate national and regional policies.
Methodological information can be obtained in the publication Survey of Technological Innovation, of the Series Methodological Reports.
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