%0 Journal Article %T Estrat¨¦gia de desenvolvimento e as tr¨ºs frentes de expans£¿o no Brasil: um desenho conceitual %A Bielschowsky %A Ricardo %J Economia e Sociedade %D 2012 %I Universidade Estadual de Campinas %R 10.1590/S0104-06182012000400002 %X the article aims at helping to provide a conceptual framework for the brazilian debate on economic development strategies. it designs a strategy on the basis of the idea of the existence of three demand-led "growth fronts," or three "engines of investment": mass consumption, natural resources and infrastructure. the article stresses the relevance of putting into action two "turbo-chargers" of these three engines of investment; namely technological innovation and the recuperation of traditional productive chains. finally, the author argues that this formula can be a viable long term pattern of economic growth, analogous to that which occurred in the past as a result of industrialization. %K development strategies %K expansion fronts %K mass consumption %K natural resources %K infrastructure. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-06182012000400002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en