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Abstract
The study has as aim to analyse the main conditions of the
evolution of the Paraná State sugar cane agroindustry after the sectorial
deregulation, according to the neoschumpeterian instrument. It must
be emphasized the fact that the Paraná State companies which compose
the sugar cane agro-industrial sector to be inserted, since the sectorial
deregulation occured in 1990, in the effective technological paradigm in
the sector, where it is necessary to be alert to the important attributes
for the biggest sectorial competitiveness, such as: bigger verification
of costs; introduction of innovation in products and processes; and
acquisition and construction of abilities and skills in the development
of productive, technological and organization qualifications. As co-rollary, the reasonable capacity of adaptation to the conditions of free
competition in the Paraná State sugar cane agroindustries in the period
of 1990 to 2005, investing in technological innovations of products
and processes can be stood out. There was, in this way, a technologi-cal heterogeneity, where some move away because of the adoption of
offensive technological strategies. Other excellent results, in percentile
distribution, of the searched companies answers were: the great impact
caused by the occured technological innovations in the agricultural area
and learning-by-interacting as a type of predominant learning in the
Paraná State sugar cane agroindustry.