Caetano Penna

Industry 2027: Risks and Opportunities from Disruptive Innovations

Deputy coordinator of the Indústria 2027 project, commissioned by the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) and carried out jointly by the Institutes of Economics at UFRJ and Unicamp. The study analysed ten manufacturing sectors to assess the prospective impact of eight clusters of potentially disruptive technologies over a ten-year horizon. Responsibilities included contributing to methodological and analytical design, managing the project’s information bank (directing two research assistants in the collection, organisation and indexing of documents and data on disruptive innovations), selecting, reviewing, synthesising and analysing key material, liaising with approximately 30 external consultants, drafting synthesis reports, and supporting project coordination meetings.

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