Blind Technology Transfer Process from Argentina

Abstract

Since the 19th century, Argentina has been characterized as an agro-exporting country reaching its peak after the First World War. Nowadays, in addition to exporting agricultural goods, Argentina has become a producer of an increasingly valuable raw material in the business world: scientific information. The accelerated increase in the production of scientific articles in high impact international journals makes Argentinean science visible all over the world. With the present study, we intend to unveil how Argentinean scientific information serves as building blocks of patents requested by foreign companies and institutions. According to the area of knowledge analyzed, we identify a differential flow of information towards the development of technologies in industrial countries. Moreover, we detected that the blind technology transfer phenomenon is a dynamic process. Herein, we present relevant evidence of scientific information flowing towards foreign technologies within 2 years after the article publication. These results suggest the need for the development of strict technology transfer policies in Argentinean universities and academic institutions in order to protect the state investment in science. Our findings highlight scientific production as a unique opportunity for economic growth and expansion of the country. This may become a fertile ground for political and economic debate.

A multi-scale perspective for assessing publishing circuits in non-hegemonic countries

“…Diversity in terms of publishing landscape is more visible currently, given the available empirical studies that collect data beyond mainstream databases. In a recent study of the citations of Argentinian publications in foreign patents, Codner and Perrota (2018) observed the flows of locally produced knowledge onto technologies developed by companies from the United States, Great Britain, China and Germany. This is evidence, among many, that peripheries are not just collecting data for their analysis in the central countries, but at the same time, a demonstration that to produce high-quality knowledge is not enough to prevent the most recent forms of brain drain.…”

Soberanía sanitaria para un pleno acceso a la salud

“…De esas investigaciones, la médica es la que mayor cantidad de patentamientos genera, todas en el exterior del país, y la mitad en organismos privados extranjeros. A su vez, la mitad de esas patentes se encuentran registradas en los Estados Unidos (Codner y Perrotta, 2018).…”

Ciencia privatizada en América Latina

“…En nuestro caso, preferimos llamar a este vínculo transferencia ciega de conocimiento ya que las publicaciones citadas pueden estar lejos de las contribuciones tecnológicas, pero igualmente representan una transferencia de conocimientos. Aunque este es un indicador menos frecuente, ha sido reconocido como valioso para medir la contribución de la ciencia pública a las innovaciones privadas (Ahmadpoor & Jones, 2017;Codner, Becerra, & Díaz, 2012;Codner & Perrota, 2018;Wang & Li, 2019).…”