Capacitação Técnica e Competitividade na Petroquímica Brasileira nos anos 1990: O Caso de Camaçari - BA

• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Lindaura Maria de
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Hasenclever, Lia, Mello, José Manoel Carvalho de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Inovação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rbi/article/view/8648871
• topic: R&D; Professional Qualification; Technological Innovation; Technological Capability; Camaçari-BA; Petrochemical Pole; O3; O30; O32; L00; L65; Pesquisa e desenvolvimento. Qualificação profissional. Inovação tecnológica. Capacitação tecnológica. Pólo petroquímico.; O3; O30; O32; L0; L65

This paper focuses and evaluates the role of technological learning in the strategy of petrochemical firms operating in Brazil at the Petrochemical Pole of Camaçari, Bahia. In such attempt this paper analizes the role of R&D activities and professional qualification investments in the overall strategy of those firms in the 1990s. The data analyzed in the paper results from a research of secondary data bases and from interviews accomplished in 2002 with a selected number of firms. In short, R&D as well as professional qualification investments by those firms are quite low and are oriented mainly to minor modifications. Last, although the role of the efforts in technological capabilities observed in the interviewed firms cannot be underestimated, there are still many challenges in relation to efficiency, profitability and competitiveness at the national and international markets.