Space Industry X Space Education in Brazil: Geographical (mis)matches and other patterns

Authors

• Andrea Cabello UnB
• Michele Melo
• Lúcia Freitas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36704/ppp.v18i36.9589

Keywords:

Space Industry, Space Education, technology clusters

Abstract

We investigate Brazilian Space Industry’s tie to its higher educational enrollment and see if patterns similar to those found in the industry emerge, allowing us to estimate future trends. We used education data from 2022 from authorized Astronautical Engineering courses/majors from Inep and Capes, the Brazilian regulatory branches for education. Regarding space companies, we used the secondary data from the analysis performed by Cabello et al (2023). The industry is a lot more territorially concentrated than university enrollment in the field, and this does not favor the sector’s development. The number of aerospace engineering graduates is probably higher than the sector’s demand in non-heated years, probably due to the sector’s heavy dependency on government procurement. This leads to a mismatch between companies and universities may have very severe consequences for long term development and calling for a well-articulated industrial-technological-educational policy.

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