O setor sucroenergético e o regime de apropriabilidade de cultivares de cana-de-açúcar: caso RIDESA

Abstract

The innovation terminology has been intensively used nowadays to evidence scenery of entrepreneurial competitiveness in the entire world. Many actors, researchers and collaborators are using elements related to tacit and codified knowledge, proceedings, directives, researches and development that are resulting in useful things absorbed by the market. One efficient regime of appropriability may protect the creations of human intellect and give competitive advantages to his owner. The Brazilian system of intellectual and industrial property is based in specific laws: Innovation Act, Cultivar protection Act and Patent Protection Act, and also with participation in international treats. The scientific and technological advances are very linked to socioeconomic development. Due the economic importance of sucroenergetic sector, the present work will discuss about the RIDESA Program, whose has the Federal University of Alagoas as one player. This work pretends to bring elements over constitution, structure, legal regulation and other parameters related to development of new cultivars of sugarcane. Although RIDESA is responsible to furnish cultivars for 59% of total area used in sugarcane plantation, and positioned 7 of the 10 more used cultivars in Brazil, this sector was evaluated as been very weak in its appropriability regime. The sugarcane´s chain aspects of knowledge generation, protection and technological transfer were analyzed, giving promises for the fast growing of this sector based in new economic paradigms coming from entrance technologies.