Parceria estratégia Brasil – França: perspectivas, convergências e divergências

Abstract

On 23 December 2008 , the presidents of Brazil and France through the signing of an Action Plan , setting out the terms of a strategic partnership between the two countries . Arising from this Act various agreements are established , outstanding among them the " Agreement between the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Government of the French Republic in the area of Submarines ", which has the essence of the Technology Transfer project in submarines . The examination of issues relating to technology transfer and its effects , leading to the inevitable interdependence between science, technology and defense , which form a virtuous cycle and inseparable , creating the need for a Logistics Base Defense to support the object of the Agreement . This basis is relevant because it is necessary to assimilate part of the process of technology transfer provided . The achievement of this technology transfer can occur through the transfer or import models , and this is an important difference to be observed in order to avoid the current dependence on foreign technology observed in the maintenance of submarines currently operated by the Brazilian Navy . Establishing Indicators of Technology Transfer will evaluate the Range object's Main Agreement and success in the project in question.