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Abstract
The development of technological capabilities was the cornerstone of the Brazilian policies for the information industries in Brazil during the 1980s. Liberalisation promoted since the early 1990s aimed at the fulfillment of the local demand with up‐dated products and services. This article examines the repercussions of these changes on local firms’ strategies towards technology and what have been the consequences on the industrial structure of the sector. The analysis suggests that ‘core competencies’ of local firms have been severely harmed and that foreign firms’ reactions to the policy changes have been less significant than what had been anticipated.
Notes
This paper is a modified version of a paper [4] presented at the Seminar on Liberalisation and Competitiveness in Information Industries, Center for US‐Mexican Studies, University of California. We thank the three anonymous referees for comments on earlier versions of this paper.