%0 Journal Article
%T Automotive and aeronautical clusters in the S o Paulo state¡¯s Vale do Para¨ªba: a comparison of formation trajectories
%A M¨¢rcio da Silveira Luz
%A Gustavo Matheus Minari
%A Isabel Cristina dos Santos
%J Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management
%D 2010
%I Institute of Aeronautics and Space
%X This paper presents a comparison of the relevant characteristics of S o Paulo State¡¯s Vale do Para¨ªba automotive and aerospace clusters observed and analyzes the technological and productive chains strengthening. In order to accomplish it, the adopted methodological procedures are of qualitative nature, by means of documentary research. The results pointed out that the government established, in the mid-1945, the currently named Departamento de Ci¨ºncia e Tecnologia Aeroespacial (DCTA), as a research and development (R&D) center and, by 1979, Embraer, a state-owned aeronautical construction industry. It was also sought to generate conditions so that domestic companies could emerge around and replace the dependency on aerospace systems and subsystems international suppliers by developing indigenous technological capacities. The automotive cluster under study started in the S o Paulo State¡¯s Vale do Para¨ªba (PPV) by means of the regionalization of multinational automotive construction firms migrated from ABC Paulista region looking for physical space for their growth, also relying on tax benefits. The survey results indicate that, in spite of fundamental differences with regard to their productive chains strenghtening processes, they showed similar adverse results.
%K Clustering
%K Aerospace cluster
%K Automotive cluster
%K Formation trajectories
%U http://www.jatm.com.br/papers/vol2_n1/JATMv2n1_p71-82_Aglomeracoes_industriais_no_setor_aeroespacial_e_automobilistico_no_Vale_do_Paraiba_Paulista.pdf