ATTEMPT TO MEASURE THE RETURN ON PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN THE BRAZILIAN SPACE SECTOR

Abstract

The space sector is responsible for generating products with high added value and diffusing effect on practically all sectors of the economy. Recent transformations have changed the sector dynamics with greater participation of the private sector. Although the government is still the largest financier of projects, mainly for significant missions, changes in the sector have been driving technological decisions for solutions to the problems proposed for the private sector’s responsibility. Even with these characteristics, the sector is not yet consolidated, from the point of view of structuring data, to allow the evaluation of public investments made robustly. Thus, in this work, it was decided to adopt a multiplier methodology developed for the European Union countries, resulting in a direct return of 3 times and an indirect return of 6 times for each Real (R$) invested by the public sector.