Innovation patterns in the Brazilian manufacturing industry: an exploratory assessment based on PINTEC Semiannual 2021 innovation survey
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Innovation patterns, Manufacturing industry, Innovation surveys, Unsupervised machine learningAbstract
This article analyzes the patterns of effort and innovative performance in the Brazilian manufacturing industry. The analysis, based on data from the 2021 Semiannual Pesquisa de Inovação Tecnológica (PINTEC), proposes a methodology for clustering sectors using unsupervised machine learning techniques. The results allow to identify four groupings of sectors in the manufacturing industry that present different patterns of effort and innovative performance, particularly regarding their adherence to taxonomies of technological intensity and sectorial innovation patterns already enshrined in the international literature.
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