DIRSI - Dialogo Regional sobre Sociedad de la Informacion

Antonio Botelho (Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is Research Coordinator, Genesis Research Unit on Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital and Assistant Professor, Innovation Track, Graduate Program in Metrology, Quality and Innovation; both at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - PUC Rio. He teaches graduate seminars on Technological Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management of Innovation; Silicon Valley: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Organizations, Research Methodology and Information Society; and has taught undergraduate courses on the Political Economy of International Trade and Information Technology & Society. He is also founder and partner, Innovastrat Consulting and MPLC Brazil.

His current research deals with innovation policy; SMEs, clusters and Internet diffusion;  the political economy of the IT industry; governance of university-based local systems of innovation; growth-conditioning factors of new technology-based firms in emerging economies; entrepreneurs and venture capital; early stage-financing and angel investing, SMEs, international trade, and the social impacts of ICT.

Botelho is currently principal investigator: Subsystem 4: Funding, Intellectual Property, Policy and Taxation of the project Brazilian Software Industry Information System” with the SOFTEX Society, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil; project “Cooperation in the Brazilian Software Industry” with the SOFTEX Society, funded by the Inter-American Development Bank; Brazil component of project “Knowledge Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean” at FLACSO (México), funded by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canada; Brazil Country Correspondent to the project “INNO Policy TrendChart” with INTRASOFT International S.A., commissioned by the European Union; and Brazil Contry Correspondent to the project “ERAWATCH research inventory II” with ERAWATCH NETWORK Asbl, commissioned by the European Union; and consultant to the project R&D Metrics for Innovation in the Electric Energy Sector, with Choice Technologies and PUC Rio, contracted by Eletropaulo AES.