Analysis of the industrial restructuring and consolidation of the municipality of São José dos Campos, SP, as an aerospace technology center in Brazil

Abstract

In São José dos Campos, SP, Brasil, technological processes follow the productive logic established in the middle of the 20th century, when scientific knowledge was intensely incorporated to production processes. However, it was during the Second World War that, as in many other countries, the Brazilian government initiated a project to create a scientific and technological base with the intention to develop national arms industries and other similar sectors and elected the city of São José dos Campos wherein to materialise it. São José dos Campos is here assumed as the Brazilian centre of Aerospatial Technology, whose core, formed by the Institute of Aeronautical Technology (ITA), by the General Command of Aerospace Technology (CTA), by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and by the Brazilian Aeronautics Company S.A. (Embraer), has similar characteristics to the ones seen in the main centres of technological innovation in the world.