O impacto econômico do financiamento da ciência no Brasil: um estudo comparativo entre importação e produção de um bem de capital em nanotecnologia

Abstract

This article presents an analysis about the economic impact in the Brazilian economy by the nationalization and commercialization of a capital asset used in scientific research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. This impact is calculated using the Brazilian Input-Output Matrix, considering three scenarios: (i) purchase of imported equipment; (ii) purchase of national equipment, considering assembly in Brazil from imported and domestic components; and (iii) purchase of national equipment, considering the situation, fictitious at present, in which all components of the equipment are produced in Brazil. It is demonstrated that the economic impact of the purchase of national equipment makes a surplus to investment in science, regardless of the scientific, technological or innovation results coming from the researches to be carried out, and it proposes the nationalization of capital goods and research inputs as sustainable model to economically make possible the national scientific and technological development.