O Arranjo produtivo local dos construtores de barcos artesanais: fundamentos para o desenvolvimento endógeno do Baixo - Tocantins (PA)

Abstract

This work is a case study of Local Productive Arrangement - LPA of the hipbuilding industry in craftsmanship Igarapé-Miri region of the Low - Tocantins. This activity consists of sites managed by teachers employed owners of a body of tacit intellectual, passed from generation to generation. It aims to investigate the potential of LPA shipbuilding craft in support of endogenous development in the region. Therefore, we analyzed the main characteristics, structure of production, cost, employment, market and employment in small businesses of LPA in the shipping industry as well as the dynamics and potential of the sector, its main problems and barriers to its development. Thus, the survey found the increase in production tonnage of the shipping industry and the economic actors, political and social changes that it has benefited. The research adopted the methodological study of the experiences of learning system and seeking to understand innovation systems and local productive systems based on the evolutionary view of innovation and technological change.