Mapping countries in Global Value Chains: An analysis of trade and Intellectual property income flows

Abstract

This article aims at mapping the countries participation in Global Value Chains (CGV) simultaneously to the behavior of trade flows and income for the use of intellectual property, in a pioneering empirical approach in the literature regarding value chains involving technological variables. For this, it were analyzed the countries participation in value chains and the pattern of variation of trade flows and income for the use of intellectual property. The mapping was done with 41 countries between 1995 and 2011, using five indicators that captured characteristics inherent to participation in this process. Given the amount of information, clusters analysis was used, identifying that the countries which increased their participation in global chains generally presented worsening in intellectual property income account usually accompanied by improvement in trade account. The result obtained with the methodology converges with the recent discussion of greater participation of the developing countries in CGV to be accompanied by greater external technological dependence.