One Size Fits All: um estudo comparativo entre Brasil e México sobre transferência internacional de tecnologia no contexto do acordo trips

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the international technology transfer (TIT) from a comparative perspective between two developing countries within the global context established by the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. Therefore, this research aims to understand the effects that the TRIPs agreement had on the international transfer of technology in Brazil and Mexico, since the agreement is considered as a possible mechanism for controlling and limiting the transfer and dissemination of technology and dependence in developing countries, as alluded to by Schumpeterian, Structuralist and Neo-Imperialist theories. Thus, the TIT model established by Kim (2003) was used as a basis, which determines that TIT occurs from the process of acquiring foreign technologies, absorption/dissemination of such technologies and subsequent development of endogenous technologies and innovations. To this end, imports and flows of Foreign Direct Investment were used as indicators of the acquisition of exogenous technologies, and the balances of the Technological Balance of Payments and patent statistics were used as indicators of absorption and endogenous development of technology.