Technological trajectories: a study on the innovation structures for the biodefensives in the State of São Paulo

• Grant number: 18/25310-6
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: August 01, 2019
• End date: January 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Renata Martins Sampaio
• Grantee: Renata Martins Sampaio
• Host Institution: Instituto de Economia Agrícola (IEA). Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios (APTA). Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento (São Paulo - Estado). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Carlos Eduardo Fredo ; Maria Beatriz Machado Bonacelli
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/20206-9 - Study on the participation of biodefensives in the agrochemicals and related market, BP.TT; 19/20665-3 - Instituto Biológico: from research on biological control to PROBIO, BP.TT

Abstract

The discussions on the impacts of the use of agrochemicals in world and Brazilian agriculture place the positive results of agriculture associated with gains in productivity, quality and economics, as well as environmental and social issues in debates that address the loss of ecosystem diversity, soil contamination and water, producer intoxication and the consumption of food with waste. In addition, the agrochemical industry and agricultural production face the limitations of the dominant agrochemical technologies materialized in the resistance of pests and diseases and in the high cost for the development of new molecules and products. In this context, there are biodefensives, alternative and complementary technologies to agrochemicals, immersed in an intermediate technological regime characterized by aspects of agrochemical technological development and biological control in agricultural sanitation. This condition presents challenges, among them the construction of regulatory frameworks and knowledge transfer mechanisms capable of accommodating the interaction between producers, manufacturers, traders and researchers involved in the development and use of biodefensives. In view of this framework, this project aims to characterize the technological development and market of biodefensives in the State of São Paulo, through a theoretical and conceptual discussion about paradigms, trajectories and technological regimes, of the analysis of the insertion of biodefensivos in the universe of production and commercialization of phytosanitary products and to explore the mechanisms of knowledge transfer. The results will contribute to address three of the ten obstacles to the development of biodefensives in São Paulo's agriculture, and to be presented in debates organized by the scientific community. (AU)