High-tech industry: a taxonomy based on R&D intensity and trade performance

This paper aims to build and discuss a typology of national high tech industries according to technology intensity and international trade. To fundament the analyze it was used the production fragmentation concept. It was made a matrix of countries according to their position in the two selected ind...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Rauen, André Tortato, Furtado, André Tosi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Revista Brasileira de Inovação (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8649084
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rbi/article/view/8649084
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:High Technology
Product fragmentation
Foreign Trade
O14
F23
F14
Alta tecnologia. Fragmentação da produção. Comércio exterior.
Descripción
Sumario:This paper aims to build and discuss a typology of national high tech industries according to technology intensity and international trade. To fundament the analyze it was used the production fragmentation concept. It was made a matrix of countries according to their position in the two selected indicators. As a result it was found four types of countries: (i) surplus technology leaders; (ii) deficit technology leaders; (iii) surplus technology followers and (iv) deficit technology followers. The paper concludes that the traditional theories about international commerce cannot explain the matrix as a whole. To do so, it is necessary to use the production fragmentation concept that is a new concept in the global value chain theory.