Abstract:This study aimed to evaluate the importance of protecting the knowledge generated by the university through patents, and assess the use of information available in patent database as a source of scientific and technological information. To this end, the doctoral theses defended in 2010 to 2012 year at the Basic and Applied Immunology FMRP/USP Post Graduation Program, were evaluated considering patent applications by the authors involved, as well as by other national/international unrelated research groups. The… Show more
“…In return for this monopoly, the patent owner is required to disclose technical information about the invention in order for others to access it and to use it in further innovations. As a consequence, publicly accessible patent libraries can be a rich source of information about innovation, and should be more explored by academic researchers (Pereira et al, 2015). In addition, it is increasingly the case that commercial researchers publish their findings in scientific journals, sometimes for the purposes of 'defensive publication' 23 .…”
The record of science 1.3 Diverse publishing traditions 2. PRINCIPLES FOR SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING 2.1 Principles and their rationales 2.2 Responses from the scientific community 3. THE EVOLVING LANDSCAPE OF SCHOLARLY AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING 3.1 The commercialization of scientific publishing 3.2 The reader-pays model 3.3 The open access movement 3.4 The author-pays models 3.5 Learned society publishing 3.6 Institutionally-based repositories and infrastructures 3.7 Preprint repositories 3.8 'Public infrastructures' -publicly funded and scholar-led 3.9 Books and monographs 3.10 'Predatory' publishing 4. PUBLISHING THE DATA OF SCIENCE 4.1. Open data: scrutiny of the evidence for truth claims 4.2 Binary publication 4.3 The general case for open data 4.4 Enabling digital data sharing and reuse 5. KEY ISSUES: BARRIERS TO OPEN ACCESS 5.1 Assessments, incentives and metrics 5.2 Peer review issues 5.3 Copyright and patents 5.4 Indexing 5.5 Costs and pricing 6. A CHANGING WORLD OF SCIENCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING 6.1 Trends in science 6.2 Open science 6.3 A critique from the Global South 6.4 Other contrary voices 7. EXPLOITING DIGITAL POTENTIAL 7.1 The digital impact on the research cycle 7.2. Linked digital infrastructures for the research cycle 7.3 Monetizing the research cycle 7.4 The emergence of commercial digital platforms for science 7.
“…In return for this monopoly, the patent owner is required to disclose technical information about the invention in order for others to access it and to use it in further innovations. As a consequence, publicly accessible patent libraries can be a rich source of information about innovation, and should be more explored by academic researchers (Pereira et al, 2015). In addition, it is increasingly the case that commercial researchers publish their findings in scientific journals, sometimes for the purposes of 'defensive publication' 23 .…”
The record of science 1.3 Diverse publishing traditions 2. PRINCIPLES FOR SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING 2.1 Principles and their rationales 2.2 Responses from the scientific community 3. THE EVOLVING LANDSCAPE OF SCHOLARLY AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING 3.1 The commercialization of scientific publishing 3.2 The reader-pays model 3.3 The open access movement 3.4 The author-pays models 3.5 Learned society publishing 3.6 Institutionally-based repositories and infrastructures 3.7 Preprint repositories 3.8 'Public infrastructures' -publicly funded and scholar-led 3.9 Books and monographs 3.10 'Predatory' publishing 4. PUBLISHING THE DATA OF SCIENCE 4.1. Open data: scrutiny of the evidence for truth claims 4.2 Binary publication 4.3 The general case for open data 4.4 Enabling digital data sharing and reuse 5. KEY ISSUES: BARRIERS TO OPEN ACCESS 5.1 Assessments, incentives and metrics 5.2 Peer review issues 5.3 Copyright and patents 5.4 Indexing 5.5 Costs and pricing 6. A CHANGING WORLD OF SCIENCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING 6.1 Trends in science 6.2 Open science 6.3 A critique from the Global South 6.4 Other contrary voices 7. EXPLOITING DIGITAL POTENTIAL 7.1 The digital impact on the research cycle 7.2. Linked digital infrastructures for the research cycle 7.3 Monetizing the research cycle 7.4 The emergence of commercial digital platforms for science 7.
Scientific research at universities has a crucial role in leveraging a country's innovative potential. Sectors that require greater investments in technology for the development of their research, such as biotechnology, need to be aware of the frontier state-of-the-art technology and the knowledge incrusted within it. Although the information available in scientific articles is well explored in academic environment, the patent literature, where much of the technological information is present, is still poorly accessed. This chapter is intended to instruct students and researchers at universities to look at patent document analysis as a source of scientific and technological information and explore its applications. Within this chapter, we use the technological area regarding immunoglobulins inventions (monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies) as example to provide directions on how to develop a patent landscape to get an overview of the inventions in a certain field; how to map a collaborative network of inventors/assignees to help the pursuit and identification of future partnerships; and lastly we describe the steps of how to set up a network of patent citations with the aim of forecasting emerging technologies. We strongly believe that incorporate data from patents in planning phase of research projects at academia, as well as to establish partnerships and join R&D efforts to invest on promising technologies, is of great relevance to leverage the growth of the biotechnology sector.
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