Abstract

This article analyses the international economy speedy process of transformation,
since the seventies, leading to a new pattern of growth and a new technological trajectory;
seeks to show how, unlike is divulged, the State had a conclusive participation straightening
out some of the emergent economies, as Korea, Taiwan and the Japan itself; concluding that,
it remains, to Brazil, confronting this new framework, to invest systematically in technology
and to reach patterns of international productivity and competitivity.

JEL Classification: O19; O10; F63.