Novas indústrias e desenvolvimento tecnológico

Data concerning the structuring of activities and of manpower, of a group of manufacturing organizations, as well as the entrepreneurs' perceptlonof their environment, are used to assess the ablllty of a new generation of entrepreneurs to pull tecnological innovation. It is suggested that the economic changes underway in these last decades of the XX century arenot detached from transformations in the social and polítical spheres. Scientific and technological knowledge are understood as criticai resources which can only be pursued through the conscious will of social actors. Third World countries do not need to undergo the paths of the developed countries, but to search for a self sustained development that must cut out for the natural resources and social milieu in each case.