The paper argues that the combination of three factors contributed for a poor performance of the Brazilian national system of innovation in the 1990s, specially when compared with it competitors in the global economy: in its economic domain there was not enough productive investment in areas where new knowledge is essential; in the technological domain, curb of expenses in areas (education, R&D, etc. ) which are crucial to innovation at times of the learning economy; and in the institutional domain, the adoption of industrial/technological policies as its policy of economic development.
Learning economy; Systems of innovation; Technological policy