Characteristics of Innovative Firms in the Brazilian Computer Industry
研究了巴西受政府保护的计算机市场中创新企业的特征，发现与自由竞争市场中的创新企业特征相似，表明这些特征具有跨市场环境的普遍性。
A number of studies have reported characteristics of innovative firms; however, these studies have typically been conducted in freely competitive markets. Angela da Rocha, Carl Christensen and Newton Paim have studied firms within the Brazilian computer industry. The Brazilian government regulates the entrance of foreign competitors to this market. Thus, the authors are able to ask whether the characteristics of innovative firms in a protected market differ from characteristics previously reported in competitive markets. With only a few minor exceptions, the reported profiles of innovative firms are quite similar. These results suggest that characteristics of innovative firms are generalizable across certain industry and environmental conditions, including protected markets.