Análise discriminante da capacidade tecnológica ambiental entre sistemas nacionais de inovação

Abstract

Environmental damage caused by economic and institutional activities are a recurring concern in debates on the economic subject. Due to the great relevance and international traits of environmental issues, the objectives for a more sustainable planet become crucial for all countries. Current work identifies possible conditioning factors to the environmental capacity of developed and developing countries. The formulation of two methodological techniques provided a static mapping of specific transitivity among groups of forty world economies during analysis and of interaction between scientific areas and technological fields as from environmental patents. Clusters analysis and discriminating analysis were applied. Main results contribute towards evolutionary literature and progress (albeit smaller) with regard to the evolution of the national systems of innovation of developing countries. These traits contribute towards policy strategies in environmental technological development.