Efficiency of innovation expenditure in the Brazilian manufacturing industry

• Autor(a) principal: Mendes, Chrystian Soares
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Lopes, Luckas Sabione, Gomes, Adriano Provezano
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Inovação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rbi/article/view/8649031
• topic: Innovation; Technology; Efficiency analysis; Manufacturing industry; Brazil; C14; L60; O31; Inovação tecnológica. Análise de eficiência. Indústria de transformação.; C14; L60; O31

This study aimed to identify whether 23 sectors of Brazilian manufacturing industry spent efficiently in innovation activities in the years 2003 and 2005, through data envelopment analysis, especially by the model of variable returns to scale. It was found that the level of efficiency has reduced considerably over the years, with the average score from 0.82 in 2003 to 0.68 in 2005, and in the past year, have been a shift from the efficient unities. The only efficient industries in the two years were linked to the production of oil, non-ferrous metals and automobiles in general. The conclusion is, after all, that maintaining the levels of profitability in terms of innovation expenditure of the sectors of processing industry depends on a more efficient use of resources in order to achieve or, if possible, overcome the technological standards international.