O Impacto da Informação de Patentes no Processo de Inovação em Portugal
| Main Authors: | Maravilhas, Sérgio, Borges, Maria Manuel |
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| Other Authors: | Rodríguez-Bravo, Blanca, Ribeiro , Fernanda |
| Format: | Proceeding PeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | pt |
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Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto - CETAC.MEDIA
, 2013
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/22848/1/PORTUGAL_O%20Impacto%20%20da%20Informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20%20de%20Patentes%20no%20Processo%20%20de%20Inova%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20em%20Portuga.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/22848/ |
Daftar Isi:
- Information, along with natural and economic resources, proves to be an unprecedented strategic tool in identifying new market opportunities and the prevention of potential threats to the enterprises. The importance of information is now universally accepted and is a resource whose management influences the success of organizations. Being knowledge the leverage to innovation and key to competitiveness, we analyze the role that information sources from industrial property play in this process and consequently on economic growth. This research attempts to answer the question about the relationship between the degree of knowledge and level of usage of patent information by research centres in Portugal and their contribution to the innovation process. The work’s hypothesis, that we tried to validate, is that university research centres that know and use patent information are more innovative since they contribute with more patents and they generate more new products and processes, giving birth to more spin-offs for its industrial application. Interview surveys were conducted to three industrial property support offices, one official agent of industrial property, two business incubators (Porto and Aveiro), one company, three librarians and five researchers to prepare adequately the questionnaire survey applied to 3.819 researchers from 173 research centres of the public higher education (universities and polytechnics) from all scientific areas of Science, Technology and Medicine. After reviewing the responses to these surveys, it appears that researchers that refer to this resource – although underutilized and ignoring its main benefits – have greater number of patents requested and assigned, license more technologies and do not develop many existing and patented technologies, which indicates the advantages of using this type of information.