The international political economy of intellectual property: mapping the flows of charges for the use of intellectual property among countries and regions

• Grant number: 16/25489-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: September 10, 2017
• End date: July 09, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: José Paulo Guedes Pinto
• Grantee: José Paulo Guedes Pinto
• Host Investigator: Kenneth Shadlen
• Host Institution: Centro de Engenharia, Modelagem e Ciências Sociais Aplicadas (CECS). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of London, England

Abstract

Since the 1980s a group of countries led by the United States has managed to impose an international standard of intellectual property protection that directly benefits their business interests, either through bilateral pressures, either by a multilateral action under the GATT/WTO. Thus, many developing countries, after an initial resistance, accepted the intellectual property rights as part of a necessary policy of economic modernization that would guarantee those countries an active insertion in the so-called "knowledge society" or as a requirement for the country's entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO). One of the consequences of the incorporation of these laws has been the exponential increase in the flows of charges for the use of intellectual property among countries, which are recorded in their balance of payments. This research aims to map these recordings in order to evaluate a key aspect of the international division of labor in the twenty-first century, identifying, under the particular perspective of international political economy, the countries and regions that benefit most and those who are principal harmed by these new international legal arrangements that are being built around the theme of intellectual property.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DE BORJA REIS, CRISTINA FROES; GUEDES PINTO, JOSE PAULO. Center-periphery Relationships of Pharmaceutical Value Chains: A Critical Analysis based on Goods and Knowledge Trade Flows. REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, FEB 2021. (16/25489-0)

DE BORJA REIS, CRISTINA FROES; GUEDES PINTO, JOSE PAULO. Center-periphery Relationships of Pharmaceutical Value Chains: A Critical Analysis based on Goods and Knowledge Trade Flows. REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, v. 34, n. 1, p. 22-pg., 2021-02-20. (16/25489-0)