Introduction: The term Information Society and Knowledge is used to characterize the new patterns of capital accumulation that assumes greater importance with the 90s. In this new technological and productive standard, information, knowledge and technological innovations become determinants of socioeconomic development of a nation. Brazil has a great internal inequality which tends to influence the conditions of insertion of the Brazilian states in this society. Objective: The aim of this paper is to analyze the conditions of insertion of the Brazilian states in the techno-productive standard now taking shape in Brazil and worldwide. Methodology: Literature Review and Document Analysis. Results: The results support the general idea about the about the heterogeneity of the conditions of participation of states in the new technological and economic pattern. The vast majority of states had insertion unfavorable conditions, and dimensions that explain this
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