Multinationals informatics in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Tigre, Paulo Bastos
• Data de Publicação: 1981
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/11945

This article shows, along general lines, the evolution on worldwide applications of the informatics, from which emerged new great industries, characterized by their use of point technologies and by their keeping of a rhythm of growth that, as informs the United Nations, will lead them in the following decade to the third position in economic significance, immediately after energy and transport industries. The world market for computers has been controlled by North American enterprises, the investments of which, in research and development, are probably superior to the sum of resources applied in this industrial field by all the other countries. The nations possessing a specific technological basis, formed by highly qualified professional technicians, have increased their possibilities of autonomy with the appearance of the minicomputers. In Brazil, the use of computers went through a process of rapid growth since 1969, largely as a result of the country's economic expansion during the period of 1968-74, which imposed a modernization of vast segments both of public administration and of the private sector.