A alavanca para ascensão das margens: um mapeamento da agenda de inovação do BRICS

Abstract

This article analyzes the BRICS innovation agenda, a grouping that brings together central actors in international economic dynamics. Understanding the potential of innovation to serve as a catalyst booster for growth and socioeconomic development processes, the group, as well as other actors from the global periphery, provides the agenda with a unique centrality, reverberating in significant cooperation efforts on the subject. In this sense, the article, based on the categorical analysis of documents published by the arrangement, brings a mapping of the instruments that make up the BRICS innovation efforts. For this purpose, is also presented a temporal review of the trajectory of this agenda in the group; the institutional modalities explored; a case of study, detailing the BRICS Techtransfer and BRICS GRAIN, in order to understand how their efforts reverberates practice; and finally, are also exposed perceptions about the possibilities – opened by innovation – of expanding the group’s capacity to provide assistance to the Global South and strength some type of governance over them.