Innovative developments in the Brazilian automotive industry

Résumé:

The Brazilian automotive industry plays a major role in the domestic economy in terms of employment, GDP, technological progress and innovation processes. Additionally, Brazil is in a unique historical moment of its economic and social development. Thus, considering also the willingness of Brazil to be more competitive each year, it is imperative to understand how this major sector of the economy has developed recently. Due to this reason, in this paper we identify the recent evolution with regard to innovation, R&D, patents deposit and the relation among them throughout the last decade in the Brazilian automotive industry.