Biotecnologia e Inovações Radicais: o Brasil entre 2009 e 2017
this article aims to associate the biotechnology activity through Research and Development with radical innovations in Brazil.The data is from the Survey of Innovation (PINTEC), carried out by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), between the years 2009 and 2017.The results show that Brazilian companies innovate little with a degree of world novelty, however, there seems to be a correlation between sectors/activities that have more companies which innovates (R&D) -in products and processes -and carry out biotechnological activities and sectors/activities that have more companies which innovate with a degree of world novelty.This correlation is shown through a simple linear regression model, using the percentage of companies in each sector/activity, but the data also shown that this association had weakened over the decade.Topics related to innovation, the innovative process and biotechnology will also be discussed.