Uma análise estrutural do setor de serviços de informação no Brasil

Abstract

This work aimed to analyze the information services sector between the years 2002 to 2007 under three different perspectives, namely: the internal dynamics centered on the role of innovation, the relationship between companies competing in the same sector, as well as the interaction of the companies in this sector with other sectors of the economy. For this, use has been made, respectively, of the following assessment tools: the evolutionary theory, a microeconomic perspective and input-output model. The first approach emphasized the way in which innovations generate growth not only to innovative companies, but to economy as a whole, the second synthesized some specific characteristics to information goods: the high fixed costs, low marginal costs, customization mass, significant economies of scale, both on the supply side, the demand side, competition for patterns, among others, the third and final approach, analyzed the production structure in general and to focus on the Information Services found that their integration with other economic activities is still not consolidated, since the analysis of its supply chain and its linkage indices proved to be very significant. Furthermore, regarding the structure of the labor market, there was an almost generalized reduction of the labor market, whose causes are estimated to be due to the intensification of capital at the expense of job in the production function and the significant increase imports during the period