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1993 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Brazil
Author : Afonso C. C. Fleury
Published in: Microelectronics and Third-World Industries
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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In the early 1980s microelectronics (ME) was considered to be the key to the modernisation of industries in many developing countries. Brazil was no exception. The Government paid unprecedented attention to the subject, and its ‘informatics (IT) policy’ has been regarded to be innovative, albeit controversial.1 However, the rate of diffusion of ME-based factory automation (FA) equipment in the subsequent years has been disappointing.