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Five indexes of claims of intellectual and industrial property: Technology Readiness Levels, articles, reviews, and patents.

Creators

  • 1. UFBA
  • 2. ICIDCA
  • 3. UFSB

Description

The five indexes presented in this document are designed to monitor the basic relationships between the main forms of intellectual and industrial property.

In review articles (R), the main contribution is critical analysis of previously published studies, and in research articles (A), ideas published for the first time. The scientometrics of the relative importance between the three main research modalities A, R and patents (P) can give rise to important inferences regarding the maturity and fertility of a given technological route, considering its Technology Readiness Levels (TRL). 

The emergence of bibliometrics/scientometrics efforts is not common in the early stages of TRL; presupposes accumulation of knowledge, experiments, technical reports. A significant accumulation or wide spatial dispersion of publications, in the A and/or P form, often indicate the need for R specific, as well as can indicate undesirable imbalances between claims of intellectual and industrial property rights, inspiring analysis and decision-making in science and technology policies.

Notes

Funding: This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (Capes) - Finance Code 001: Process: 88887.465369/2019-00 (Capes) - Date: 01/10/2019 to 30/09/2023. In other part, this study was financed by Institutional Internationalization Program – CAPES – PrInt: Process: 88887.468908/2019-00 (Call no. 41/2017); Date: 01/02/2020 to 31/12/2020. This work was conducted during a scholarship supported by the Institutional Sandwich Doctorate Program Abroad (PDSE) at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil, and University of Valladolid (UVA), Palencia, Spain.

Acknowledgment To Questel, for the kind permission to use and free training of the Orbit®. To Dr. D. Kouloukoui for technical advice. To Prof. H. Suzuki, for generously sharing information on patent prospecting. To Dr. Jesús Martín-Gil of Department of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering, University of Valladolid (UVA), for the guidelines during the Institutional Sandwich Doctorate Program Abroad (PDSE).

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