Abstract

MORALES SANCHEZ, Mario Alberto; AMARO ROSALES, Marcela  and  STEZANO PEREZ, Federico Andrés. Technological Trends in the Biotechnology Sector: Patent Analysis in Mexico and the United States. Econ: teor. práct [online]. 2019, n.51, pp.17-44.  Epub Oct 28, 2019. ISSN 2448-7481.  https://doi.org/10.24275/etypuam/ne/512019/morales.

The objective of this research is to compare technology trends in biotechnology patenting in the United States and Mexico, in order to identify patterns of convergence between the two countries in the 2009-2014 period and determine whether the technologies patented in Mexico are comparable to those that are patented in the country that leads the world in biotechnological development.

Based on the classification proposed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the biotechnology sector definition is based on the use of the International Patent Classification (CIP), and a new sectoral subdivision of biotechnology is proposed.

The results obtained show that although the technological routes are similar in the companies that patent in both countries, Mexican companies display poor performance, which reflects that, in global technological development, the windows of opportunity for national companies are situated in pre-paradigmatic technologies, where they aspire to develop early imitative strategies in niches not exploited by transnational corporations but not on the frontier of world technology.

Keywords : Technological development; patents; biotechnology.

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