INDUSTRIAL POLICY: THEORETICAL AND ANALYTICAL BASIS IN PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Industry, at the current historical moment, is considered one of the driving forces behind economic development, including: foreign direct investment, trade in goods and services and technology flows. These forces are driving nations and companies towards internationalization, globalization and the adoption of radically different models of management and production. Thus, contemporary industrial policies must focus on new production technologies, product development and business models, in addition to the diversification of the economy towards sectors and activities with greater added value, technological content and productivity. In this context, this work aims to understand industrial policy within a conceptual, historical and applied perspective, considering, mainly, what national entities dedicated to producing and disseminating information on industrial policy in Brazil say, among these: Instituto de Estudos para o Desenvolvimento Industrial - IEDI, and the National Confederation of Industry - CNI, who consider that the country's sustainable development strategy must inevitably pass through the dynamization of the national productive park and the current conception of the industrial policy inseparable from competition, technological updating and increased productivity , must be continuously renewed and must be aligned with macroeconomic policies (and even microeconomic ones) with the objective of the country's growth and development.