Variables

Economic: Domestic credit to private sector; GDP; GDP per capita; Gross capital formation; Gross domestic income; Gross domestic savings; Gross national expenditure; Gross savings; Net investment in nonfinancial assets; Population, total; Unemployment rate (World Bank, 2019c)

Innovation: R&D employees IBGE and Firms IBGE (2019c); Firms that spend on R&D (World Bank, 2019a), R&D expenditure, Researchers in R&D and Technicians in R&D (UNESCO, 2019); and Scientific and technical journal articles (NSF, 2019).

Internet supply: Households with computers IBGE and Households connected to the internet IBGE (2019a); Fixed broadband subscriptions, Fixed telephone subscriptions and Individuals using the Internet (ITU, 2019).

Technologic: Telecommunications employees, Telecommunications companies, Information and communications technology employees and Information and communications technology companies (IBGE, 2019c); Valores do Índice de Serviços de Telecomunicações (Anatel, 2019); Investment in ICT with private participation (World Bank, 2019b); Information and communication sector activity Index IBGE (2019b); High-technology exports (United Nations, 2019).

Internet consumption: Internet consumption (ITU, 2018).

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