This article analyzes how different institutional domains related to varieties of capitalism appear in the literature (corporate governance, relations between companies, industrial relations, employer-employee relations, and qualification processes) in the United States, Germany, Spain, Korea, Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil, and adds dimensions like the relationship between the business community and the state and patterns of insertion in the national economies and the world market, in order to identify the different institutional configurations in which enterprises operate in these countries. The article then describes the main characteristics of the industrial policies developed by the various countries, considering their relevance for both these configurations and the Brazilian context, in order to identify the institutional policies and changes that could help Brazil achieve greater success in increasing the companies' capacity for technological innovation.
varieties of capitalism; industrial policy; technological innovation
