Abstract
This paper considers the role of interactive learning for
sectoral innovation systems and policies. The vehicle of
this discussion is the emergence of Brazilian pulp and
paper industry during the 20th century, and we explore
its development as a network learning phenomenon, and
highlight how dynamics of technological learning shifted
as the organization of industry and its sectoral
innovation system expanded and changed in tandem with the
advance of strategic knowledge frontiers. Right balance
of coordination and competition in the system fostered
demand-led innovation system, allowed Brazilian firms to
integrate efficiently in global learning networks, and
nurtured entrepreneurial culture that eventually
leveraged industrial change. The subsequent expansion and
success of Brazilian pulp and paper industry can to a
great extent be credited to the sectoral innovation
system and its dual strategy, which has established a
clear division of labor between fundamental innovation
and knowledge transfer. Both private firms and the
public sectoral innovation system have focused Brazilian
cutting edge research, development, and innovation
efforts on the improvement of eucalyptus, the primary
source of superior competitive advantage for the
Brazilian pulp and paper industry, and in other science
and technology areas created efficient mechanisms to
transfer the best available scientific and technological
solutions from abroad to Brazil.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Sectoral Systems of Innovation and Production in Developing Countries |
| Subtitle of host publication | Actors, Structure and Evolution |
| Editors | Franco Malerba, Sunil Mani |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd |
| Chapter | 4 |
| Pages | 99-130 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-84844-656-4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| MoE publication type | D2 Article in professional manuals or guides or professional information systems or text book material |
