Tecnologia e inovação na cadeia produtiva sucroenergética do estado de Sergipe : caracterização do setor e identificação dos padrões de inovação

Abstract

This paper investigates the main characteristics of the sugar-energy productive chain in the state of Sergipe focusing on the analysis of the changes in its productive structure during the period of 2002 to 2008, when the sector shows a resumption of growth. The study was supported by the main concepts of the neo-Schumpeterian approach of the economic growth, according to which the dynamics of the introduction of new technologies is a preponderant factor of development. In addition to analyzing the sugar-energy sector on the evolution of its production and productivity, the institutional aspects that marked the period of desregulation in Brazil were addressed, specially after 1985, emphasizing the RD&I (Research, development and innovation) structures established around the sector in this period. Representing the sugar-energy productive chain by the main products that it is currently composed of helped highlight that its deep productive restructuring was mainly due from research and development investments, from training and from the introduction of technological and organizational innovations. Finally, it was possible to systematize three fundamental aspects to identify patterns of innovation in the sugar-energy sector: types of innovations developed , innovation routes and technological strategies . These, applied to the present productive chain of the state of Sergipe showed that its now existing structure has gone through many improvements, although based in the innovation route capital embodied innovations and in dependent and traditional technological strategies.