Innovation and sustainability: quantitative analysis as support for public policy

• Grant number: 11/16371-2
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Production Engineering - Economic Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Daisy Aparecida do Nascimento Rebelatto
• Grantee: Daisy Aparecida do Nascimento Rebelatto
• Host Institution: Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Enzo Barberio Mariano ; Flávia de Castro Camioto ; Herick Fernando Moralles ; Naja Brandão Santana

Abstract

In public policy planning, directing appropriate investment is a complex activity, since the decision-making to allocate financial resources requires the formulator to admire many variables. Thus, the overall goal of this project is to produce knowledge about the relationship between economic growth, development, innovation and infrastructure, within the context of sustainability, so as to provide information for both policy-making, by the public as to the development of areas of knowledge involved. In this context, the proposed objective will be awarded through econometric tools, neural networks, data envelopment analysis (DEA) and top-down method (AU)