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This article presents results of the technological innovation section of the PAEP survey, which is a large sample survey of firms in the most industrialized Brazilian federate State. The first PAEP collected data in 1997, referring to 1996, in more than 10,000 industrial firms. Innovation questions followed the OECD guidelines. The article starts with a methodological summary. It shows that the rate of innovation output in Sao Paulo—that is the share of innovative firms—revealed a considerably extensive adoption of technologically new or improved products and/or processes in the period 1994/1996. The innovative performance of Sao Paulo industrial firms is examined for distinct firm groups, taking into account firm size, the origin of capital ownership (national vs. transnational firms) and industrial sector. The article reveals that the distance between Sao Paulo industrial firms and their counterpart in industrialized countries is even more substantial in terms of R&D activities. The findings about the sources of information for innovation and their motivation for innovation reinforce the features of the pattern of innovation presented in the article, that is, there has been quite substantial innovation but little knowledge in the innovation process of the industry of Sao Paulo. |
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