Considerações sobre a capacitação tecnológica na indústria de máquinas-ferramentas do Rio Grande do Sul

This paper's aim is to analyze Rio Grande do Sul's machine tool manufacturing enterprises capacity to incorporate product and process innovations engendered in the electronic complex. It is not, therefore, an attempt to measure this sector's technological modernization in a certain point of time relatively to product and process up-to-date technologies, but to examine these firms capacity to dynamically accumulate technological know-how that should allow them to evolve from copy, acquisition, and use of external technologies to endogenous engendering of innovations that would permit them to manufacture new products or enhance their productive processes. Furthermore, this study Intends to verify the differences and/or similarities existing between this process of technological adjustment by the enterprises established in Rio Grande do Sul and that experienced by those located in São Paulo.This paper's aim is to analyze Rio Grande do Sul's machine tool manufacturing enterprises capacity to incorporate product and process innovations engendered in the electronic complex. It is not, therefore, an attempt to measure this sector's technological modernization in a certain point of time relatively to product and process up-to-date technologies, but to examine these firms capacity to dynamically accumulate technological know-how that should allow them to evolve from copy, acquisition, and use of external technologies to endogenous engendering of innovations that would permit them to manufacture new products or enhance their productive processes. Furthermore, this study Intends to verify the differences and/or similarities existing between this process of technological adjustment by the enterprises established in Rio Grande do Sul and that experienced by those located in São Paulo