ID: 15291
Authors:
Silvia Helena.
Source:
Revista de Administração Pública, v. 14, n. 4, p. 73-109, October-December, 1980. 37 page(s).
Document type: Article (Portuguese)
Show Abstract
The work endeavours to list the decisions taken during the '70s by the Brazilian government, with a view to building up a domestic industry in the area of digital electronics. The text is a record of the political formulations adopted in that period, as well as of the facts they generated. The study's first part has for title The computer industry in government plans, and in it is exposed the treatment the matter was given in the official plans, especially in the I and II National Development Plans and in the I and 11 Basic Plans for Scientific and Technological Development, always establíshing a comparison between the intentions expressed and the actions undertaken. The second part - The process of political formulations deals with the period of 1971-74, when an appraisal of the country's prospects in terms of technological capabilities was pursued, and when appeared the first discussions about the best way to start a Brazilian industry of digital electronics. The period of 1974-78 is dealt with in the third part - The institutional basis and a model negotiation - where are discussed the attempts at legitimation and the entities encharged with policy definition and their possible means of action. It was then obtained the market reserve for national minicomputers, prevailing the purchase of foreign technology for Brazilian manufacture. The article was written in June/July 1979 and, therefore, does not register the change in institutional pattern reflecting upon the area of the informatics, nor the virtual drop of the market reserve, occurred in August 1980, when the government approved the manufacture in Brazil of minicomputers, by Hewllet-Packard, and of "medium-small" computers, by IBM.
