The productive internationalization is an essential process to the enterprises strengthening and nations competitiveness growing, due to positive impact on their flows, technology and foreign exchange trade. The major developed economies were pioneers in supporting their enterprises trade and productive internationalization, by creation of funding programs, market research, insurance and guarantees, and trade missions. The objective of this text is to analyze the Brazilian State role played in the several cycles of local companies productive internationalization on the one hand and display in detail the more decisive role of the Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES) in the “national champions” formation and productive internationalization during the early years of this century on the other. The main conclusion is that the bank, to support groups that operate in capital and natural resources intensive industries, has reinforced the regressive specializations and the adaptation technological pattern.
Mundialization; State; BNDES; Multinational Enterprises; Brazil