ABSTRACT
This paper aimed at further investigating the dynamics of health innovation and the social and economic interests in its wake. For such, it was based on a broader concept of health that emphasizes it as an important protagonist within the national development agenda. Thus, it stems from the characterization and analysis of the Health Industrial Complex, and it points out the main challenges with respect to a virtuous joint between the social and economic variables of health within the broader development agenda.
KEYWORDS:
Health Innovation; Health Industrial Complex; National Science; Technology and Innovation Policy; Public Health; National Development