INDUSTRY DAY: Recovery Plan proposes four missions to boost the sector
The plan established four missions based on the following axes: decarbonization of the economy; digital transformation; health and health security; and defense and national security.
Elaborated after months of discussions, the plan highlights the main obstacles to the country’s growth, such as the so-called Brazil Cost – a set of difficulties that burden the productive sector, but also the opportunities that Brazil can take advantage of with the rearrangement of the world’s production chains – especially due to the dispute between the United States and China, digitalization and sustainability, for example.
Having a consistent strategy to leverage the productive sector and, consequently, the Brazilian economy is fundamental, since the great powers have already moved, explains the director of Industrial Development and Economy at CNI, Lytha Spíndola.
“Brazil’s industrial development has to be perfectly aligned with what happens in the rest of the world. The main economies of the world have launched aggressive industrial policy plans. supply insecurity of inputs and strengthen the chains of greater added value on a global scale.”
Resumption Plan
O Industry Resumption Plan is structured around two main points. On the one hand, it presents measures that, by improving the business environment, contribute to modernize production processes and reduce production costs and insertion of Brazilian companies in the international market.
For this, the document brings 60 proposals, divided into nine thematic axes, such as taxation, financing and infrastructure, for example, which aim to balance the competitive conditions of the Brazilian productive sector with that of other countries.
The plan also suggests mission-oriented policies, which focus on matching the country’s social priorities with the arrival of new technologies.
But, for all this to work out, the industry must be the protagonist, according to the CNI. Industry is the sector that most invests in science and technology, an important condition for the missions listed in the plan to get off the ground, solve social demands and, consequently, contribute to economic development.
CNI’s understanding is that a modern industrial policy must go beyond government incentives to certain industrial sectors. For this reason, Spíndola explains that the fulfillment of each of the missions will involve different actors, such as public authorities, private segments and members of the scientific community.
“These missions are aimed at a goal. They are not aimed at a sector, but several segments involved in achieving that goal, which is to solve an important problem in society”, he explains.
According to the plan, the task of leading the country in each of these missions would fall to the National Council for Industrial Development (CNDI), which is linked to the Presidency of the Republic and presided over by the country’s vice president and minister of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services (MDIC), Geraldo Alckmin.
For each mission, the plan presents a problem, proposes solutions and, finally, lists the expected benefits with the implementation of that thematic axis. When it comes to digital transformation, for example, CNI points out that new digital technologies are transforming production processes, but that small and medium-sized companies have more difficulty in adopting these innovations. Among the consequences are low productivity and the poor insertion of these businesses in global trade.
The solution to this problem involves, for example, the creation of programs to support industrial companies for the modernization of production processes; awareness of businessmen for the digital transformation and dissemination of tools that promote greater productive and energy efficiency.
The expected benefits range from increased productivity and competitiveness to improved quality of products and services, among others.
Check below the objectives of each of the missions.
Mission 1: Decarbonization
Objective: to develop a low-carbon economy, with incentives for the decarbonization of industry, the energy transition and the promotion of the bioeconomy and the circular economy.
Mission 2: Digital Transformation
Objective: to train Brazilian companies, especially small and medium-sized companies, so that they can expand their market scale and thus become qualified to participate in global supply chains.
Mission 3: Health and Health Safety
Objective: universalize access and promote the competitive development of the production and export chain of medicines, vaccines, tests, protocols, equipment and services.
Mission 4: Defense and National Security
Objective: to support the development of strategic links in the defense and national security industrial complex chains, with a focus on technologies in current use.
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