Nacionalismo e Aprendizagem no Programa de Águas Profundas da Petrobras

• Autor(a) principal: Furtado, André Tosi
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Freitas, Adriana Gomes
• 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/8648892
• topic: R&D Economic Impacts; Innovation; Petrobras; Absorptive Capacity; L7; O32; Impactos econômicos da pesquisa e desenvolvimento. Inovação. Petrobras. Capacidade de absorção.; L7; O32

This paper presents an evaluation of the economic impacts of a set of nationalistic technological projects. These projects were focused on the local technological development and mastery. The paper uses the example of Technological Capabilities in Production Systems for Deep Waters Program (Procap 1000), which was conducted by Petrobras between 1986 and 1992. Based upon a previous study of direct and indirect economic impacts of the program, a sample of seven nationalist project of the program could be chosen (Furtado et al., 1998). All the projects of this sample were characterized by an ill commercial success. The central argument of this paper is that in spite of their commercial setbacks, these projects underlie relevant learning process, which generated significant indirect economic impacts. The case studies show how learning resulting from the program was converted onto economic impacts. The figures from the study of the Procap sample indicate that economic impacts were seven times higher than the projects costs. This paper points the role of absorptive capacity to the learning process. Based on the case studies, this paper proposes a typology of six different kinds of absorptive capacities.