Antonio Carlos Diegues is associate professor at the Institute of Economics at UNICAMP / Brazil, former coordinator of the Center for Industrial Economics and Technology (2018 to 2022), and deputy coordinator of the undergraduate course in economics.

He was organizer of the book Brazil: Industry and development in a scenario of transformation of the techno-productive paradigm, Guest Editor (2020) for the Special Section of the Brazilian Innovation Journal entitled 'New Productive Paradigms: Challenges to development in an emergency scenario of Industry 4.0 and the resumption of Industrial Policy', and 2nd place in the 2021 edition of the ABDE-BID Award in the Development in Debate category with the article Limits of the contribution of Brazilian industry to development during the 2000s: a new version of peripheral industrialism?.

He has worked on research projects aimed at formulating public policies, coordinated by institutions such as BNDES, ABDI, IPEA, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, among others.

Currently, his main research projects are: (a) Transformations in the techno-economic paradigm and the limits of industry's contribution to development: a comparative analysis between Brazil, China, Middle Income and High Income Countries, (b) Brazilian industry in the second decade of the 2000s: The heterogeneous impacts of premature deindustrialization on sectoral dynamics of competition and accumulation and (c) The relationship between Industrial Policy and the transformations in the Chinese development model based on the reconfiguration of its productive structure.

Email: diegues@unicamp.br