In 1982, Schumpeter is inspired by the idea of Marx to outline his theory of real competition in
which technological innovation is not only a competitive weapon to conquer new markets, but also
mainly responsible for structural changes through the process of creative destruction. For
Schumpeter, the capitalist economy is, above all, an evolutionary economics in which technological
innovations are inducers of capitalist economic development, with respect to the employment of
productive resources, drawn from conventional uses coming up with one point in new uses
heretofore untested in practice able to produce new products and production processes by means of
new combinations of materials and productive forces, that is, technological innovations. Only new
combinations that are discontinuous and industrial changes that cause the change point of market
structures in a capitalist economy, featuring the real economic development. The primary goal of
this article is to highlight the specificity of funding investments in technological innovations.
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