Snapshots of a state of flux: how Brazilian industrial firms differ in the adoption of digital technologies and policy implications

Ferraz, João Carlos; Kupfer, David J.; Torracca, Julia; Britto, Jorge

doi:10.1080/17487870.2019.1578651

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“…In product design, the combination of automated design software, additive manufacturing, and breakthroughs in material science have significantly reduced the time it takes to develop prototypes and produce tooling (Ferraz et al, 2019;Andreoni et al, 2021). Additive manufacturing, in particular, presents an op portun ity to 'leapfrog' in the area of tooling.…”

Section: Digitalization Of Production Technologies In Manufacturingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Structural transformation in South Africa:

Baloyi,

Di Paola,

Mukandila

2024

The Evolving Structure of South Africa’s Economy

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Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. researchers who contributed to the working papers on which some of the chapters drew, and to all those who commented on the research in various IDTT workshops and events. The University of Johannesburg provided valuable support in hosting the IDTT and the Centre for Competition, Regulation, and Economic Development (CCRED) and the South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Industrial Development provided the institutional home for the IDTT at the university. We are indebted to Catherine Garson for her superb editing of all the chapters, as well as for her indispensable role in supporting the management of the book project. Lastly, we would like to thank all the reviewers who provided detailed and helpful peer reviews of the draft chapters; these reviews contributed substantially to improving the quality of the chapters. Contents List of Figures xxi List of Contributors xxiii Endorsements xxvii 1. Framing Structural Transformation in South Africa and Beyond 1

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Section: Digitalization Of Production Technologies In Manufacturingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Structural transformation in South Africa:

Baloyi,

Di Paola,

Mukandila

2024

The Evolving Structure of South Africa’s Economy

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“…For example, the percentage of operations monitored by sensors can be high or low or, in the case of external relations, many or a few suppliers can be linked up in real time with a firm. In other words, a given administrative, or production task, function or area of a company may be covered in different proportions by digital solutions (FERRAZ;RUSH;MILES, 1992). The "intensity" of digitalisation, thus, varies within a firm and among firms.…”

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“…These provide inspirations for the proposal of an experimental method for estimating the adoption of digital technologies by industrial firms and for the analysis of determinants, requirements, and outcomes of digitalisation. The ideas put forward are derived from investigations carried out in Brazil and other developing countries (INSTITUTO EUVALDO LODI, 2018;FERRAZ et al, 2020;ALBRIEU et al, 2019;KUPFER;FERRAZ;TORRACCA, 2019;UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION, 2020).…”

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Chasing the rainbow

Ferraz

2023

Rev. Bras. Inov.

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This paper proposes a methodological framework for assessing the adoption of digital technologies by industrial firms. Given the increasing economic importance of digital technologies, proper assessment methods are required. However, evaluating digital adoption can be quite challenging due to the pervasiveness, intangibility, and fast progress rate of such technologies. The proposed framework is designed to enable three tasks: (i) registering information about current and prospective adoption of digital technologies by industrial firms, (ii) developing indicators to capture the dynamics of digital adoption in time; and (iii) analysing digitalisation determinants, requirements, and outcomes. This paper contributes to building a reference framework to evaluating how digital technologies can strengthen the industrial development of nations, particularly developing countries.

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“…In South Africa and other middle-income countries, a number of structural issues can hinder the adoption of advanced digital technologies by firms that are not MNCs or internationally competitive. The lack of basic and intermediate digital capabilities-digital skills in particular-and enabling infrastructural capabilities undermines domestic firms' technology efforts, specifically their absorption of digital technologies, their integration into existing production systems, and their retrofitting (Ferraz et al, 2019;UNIDO, 2019).…”

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Structural Transformation in South Africa

Andreoni¹,

Mondliwa²,

Roberts³

et al. 2021

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Taking South Africa as an important case study of the challenges of structural transformation, the book offers a new micro-meso level framework and evidence linking country-specific and global dynamics of change, with a focus on the current challenges and opportunities faced by middle-income countries. Detailed analyses of industry groupings and interests in South Africa reveal the complex set of interlocking country-specific factors which have hampered structural transformation over several decades, but also the emerging productive areas and opportunities for structural change. The structural transformation trajectory of South Africa presents a unique country case, given its industrial structure, concentration, and highly internationalized economy, as well as the objective of black economic empowerment. The book links these micro-meso dynamics to the global forces driving economic, institutional, and social change. These include digital industrialization, global value-chain consolidation, financialization, and environmental and other sustainability challenges which are reshaping structural transformation dynamics across middle-income countries like South Africa. While these new drivers of change are disrupting existing industries and interests in some areas, in others they are reinforcing existing trends and configurations of power. The book analyses the ways in which both the domestic and global drivers of structural transformation shape—and, in some cases, are shaped by—a country’s political settlement and its evolution. By focusing on the political economy of structural transformation, the book disentangles the specific dynamics underlying the South African experience of the middle-income country conundrum. In so doing, it brings to light the broader challenges faced by similar countries in achieving structural transformation via industrial policies.

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Snapshots of a state of flux: how Brazilian industrial firms differ in the adoption of digital technologies and policy implications

Cited by 17 publications

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Structural transformation in South Africa:

Chasing the rainbow

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