Evolução do nível tecnológico dos produtos industrializados exportados e importados pelo Estado do Ceará: uma análise para o período de 1997 a 2012

Abstract

To classify the industrial sectors according to their technological intensity, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has divided the manufactured products into four groups: high, medium-high, medium-low and low technology intensity. In this context, this study has as main objective to investigate whether there were developments in the technological level of industrial goods exported and imported by the State of Ceará, according to the criteria of the OECD, compared to other states in the Northeast, considering the period 1997-2012. With its base of extracted data from the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC) ALICE-Web System. After grouping of products into four groups, it was observed that, over time, the amount of Ceará exports heavily concentrated in the low technological intensity group, whereas, on average, in other Northeastern states there dispersion of these exports in groups of medium-high, medium-low and low technology intensity in 23.46%, 27.06% and 49.40 %, respectively, however, the behavior of the distribution of imports of Ceará between groups is quite similar to other groups of the northeastern states, on average, compared to the behavior of exports.