Abstract
Sugarcane industry in Brazil is highly competitive in the production of ethanol, sugar and energy. This industrial competitiveness was also achieved through the development of the equipment involved in the production processes. The industry that supplies the equipment plays an important role in the competitiveness of sugarcane sector. This study seeks to analyze the organization and configuration of the equipment supply industries for sugar, ethanol and energy mills in Brazil. The study seeks to evaluate how innovation occurs in this sector, contributing to an important discussion about maintaining competitiveness and proposing a typology for this industry. The study is based on an analysis of information obtained through a set of interviews with leaders and entrepreneurs in the industry. The results allow us to conclude that the growing modernization of the sector will require greater efforts from the equipment industry to provide plants with necessary technological innovations and possible efficiency gains
Highlights
Understanding the competitiveness of the sugarcane and energy industry is of fundamental importance for Brazil, because it is an activity that the country has dominated for centuries and because the industry has obtained major gains in productivity and efficiency, becoming one of the most competitive agro-industrial activities in Brazil
In addition to agricultural competitiveness, the sugarcane industry is highly competitive in the production of ethanol, sugar, and energy. This industrial competitiveness has been achieved by developing both productive processes and the equipment involved in these processes
The capital goods sector in Brazil is responsible for the production of a complex set of machines and equipment used in the production of other goods
Summary
Understanding the competitiveness of the sugarcane and energy industry is of fundamental importance for Brazil, because it is an activity that the country has dominated for centuries and because the industry has obtained major gains in productivity and efficiency, becoming one of the most competitive agro-industrial activities in Brazil. The sugarcane industry’s leading products are sugar, ethanol, and, more recently, electric energy It is a very traditional industrial sector in the Brazilian economy, dating back to the colonial period and has remained one of the main industries in the country in terms of share of GDP, employment generation, and international integration (Sugarcane Industry Association - UNICA, 2010). The industry’s organization is different in each region, both in relation to the degree of integration and the size of the companies and their strategies This type of industrial organization, in the form of local production arrangements, contributes to greater efficiency in the sector and greater dynamism for the regions in which they are located (CEISE, 2009). The instrument for data analysis was content analysis, which used to understand the information and systematize the knowledge acquired during the interviews
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