Vol. 76 No. a (2025): State capabilities for implementing industrial and innovation policies - Special Issue

This special issue of Revista do Serviço Público looks at the structural challenges of industrial policy in contemporary Brazil, highlighting that overcoming them requires more than technical proposals. The focus is on the need to strengthen governance, bureaucratic-organizational...

The debate on innovation policies becomes imperative in the face of new and major social, environmental, and economic challenges confronting society. In the scope of this discussion, there are different perspectives on the rationality of policies. Among them, the mission-oriented approach...

Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies (MOIPs) have emerged as one of the most influential modalities in the field of industrial and science, technology and innovation policies in the last decade. It is a revival of the Technological Missions approach initially implemented by the central...

The article investigates the institutional arrangements in the formulation and implementation of public policies in Brazil and Argentina, with a focus on health-related initiatives. The objective is to examine the institutional arrangements that underpin public policies in the context of...

O sucesso das políticas industriais está geralmente relacionado com a sua capacidade de exigir e fazer com que o setor privado cumpra contrapartidas para torná-los elegíveis para tais políticas. Em outras palavras, as contrapartidas implementadas nessas políticas são vistas como fundamentais...

This article analyzes the configuration of incentive instruments aimed at financing industrial and innovation policy (PII) in Brazil, focusing on existing tools and the challenges related to establishing a more regular pattern for the flow of these resources. The text engages with the...

This paper discusses the recent creation and performance of Colab-i, the Innovation Laboratory of the Federal Court of Accounts of Brasil (TCU). It is based on the hypothesis that this institution, through training actions for internal and external managers, has been initiating a process of...

Regulation theory has long relied on the lexicon of “regulatory reform” to promote static economic efficiency and disciplined and rigid governance models. Although numerous authors have pointed to the technocratic nature of the existing ‘regulatory orthodoxy’ and stressed the need to...

This article explores the political dimension of the relationship between state capacities and industrial policy. The analysis of the recent experience of industrial policy in Brazil has made it possible to understand the relational element of state capacities. For industrial policy to occupy...