Technological renewal is increasingly complex and costly, which makes it difficult for new firms to be able to develop their innovation activities in isolation. Many of the product innovation ...requirements are not completely available inside firms, and so they need to form cooperative relationships with other organisations to make up for the shortages in resources and capacity. Through analysis of a case study, the aim is to understand the inter-organisational cooperation relationships established by one firm in the use, as a raw material, from another firm's activity waste – coffee dregs. This type of innovative cooperation also involved simultaneously a university and an innovation research centre in the development of a new product in the health field. It provides an example of circular economy in the context of an innovative firm's initial development, something that could inspire academics and business-people who focus their work on sustainability, innovation and inter-organisational cooperation topics, where the diversity of relationships has not yet been studied in the consulted literature. Several semi-structured interviews were carried out with representatives of the focal company and other cooperating organisations, in addition to secondary data collected from each one. From content analysis method, the results show mutual advantages, locally and nationally, in establishing cooperative relationships to develop an innovative product based on sustainability principles. Still based on the case study, six major topics were identified: (1) sustainability; (2) planning the firm's activity in the medium and long-term; (3) product innovation; (4) university-firm relationship; (5) protecting industrial property, and (6) community benefits resulting from the cooperation. Based on these topics, an innovative model is proposed, as well as presenting the contributions of this pioneering study to theory and practice. Future lines of research are indicated to guide possible empirical studies to carry out a posteriori.
Relationship between industry 4.0 and patents Santa Rita, Luciana Peixoto; da Silva, Luciana Santos Costa Vieira; Kaczam, Fabíola ...
World patent information,
September 2023, 2023-09-00, Volume:
74
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Patent statistics have been widely used to assess the competitive position in various technological domains, both at the level of companies and countries. In the literature, there is a gap related to ...studies that highlight the importance of patents as a strategic instrument in the context of industry 4.0 technologies. In this context, the present article seeks to fill this gap by presenting a conceptual and empirical framework based on a systematic literature review (SLR) to analyze the relationship between patents and industry 4.0. For this purpose, 958 studies published in journals listed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases were selected. Patent analysis refers to examining various features of technological progress and innovation activities that characterize a given industrial or technological domain. This relationship points to the importance of patenting, as the literature review results showed an increase in patenting activity related to Industry 4.0. This study reinforces that patent analysis refers to the examination of various characteristics of technological progress and that innovation activities characterize a particular industrial or technological domain. This article also contributes to the patents and industry 4.0 fields by presenting the state of the art of this relationship and directing future research.
Biotechnology offers solutions and opportunities to meet various societal demands, thereby contributing to significant scientific advancements. This study aimed to characterize the technological ...development of biotechnology in the healthcare sector in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, from 2016 to 2022 by analyzing patents filed by and granted to public and private Higher Education institutions. For data collection, a quantitative exploratory approach was employed using statistical methods and a patent analysis of institutions in the patent database of the Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), focusing on patents related to the healthcare field. Data were collected in October, November, and December. A total of 580 patent records were collected from the INPI, belonging to Sections A and C of the International Patent Classification (IPC) related to educational institutions. Furthermore, this study highlighted that higher education institutions have a higher number of patents in the healthcare field. These results provide an understanding of the strategic areas for technological development in biotechnology in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Innovations related to artificial intelligence (AI) can impact many technological fields and gather attention of several sectors from industry. Brazil is a developing country with a large territory ...and consumer market, attracting investment from foreign companies, including AI technologies. In the present work, we carry out a review of the Brazilian IP Law, Guidelines and Resolutions regarding patentability of AI inventions in Brazil, and also perform comparative analyses with the guidelines from the EPO and USPTO. Then, patent searches are carried out to analyze filing indicators of patent applications for AI inventions, wherein it is possible to verify that most of the filing applicants in Brazil are foreign companies, mainly from the US. Brazilian entities, which rank second overall in filing for patent applications in Brazil, do not even appear among the main applicants for AI inventions. We conclude that Brazil is not a competitive country in the production of patents related to AI, and it is important for Brazil to establish some degree of legal certainty regarding patent protection for AI inventions and disseminate knowledge about protecting such inventions by patents, so that inventors opt to disclose their AI inventions instead of keeping them as a trade secret. Therefore, more and more sectors of society might benefit from innovations arising from AI.
The way an investment is being financed presents one of the risks of investing in industrial properties, so extra attention should be paid to address this matter. Therefore, it is necessary to assess ...the property in terms of the risks that affects not only the market value of the property, but also the overall collateral and financing of the property. Banks set the level of risk for each property individually and there are several situations that may arise while assessing the risk. This paper discusses the risks associated with valuation of industrial properties for banking purposes.
The Slovak Academy of Science (SAS) was one of the first institutions in Slovakia that systematically began to focus on technology transfer. After initial successes, the situation began to stagnate. ...As a part of the fulfilment of its „Mission“, the SAS started to pay increased attention to this issue and one of the first steps on the way to more significant transfer of results to practice is approval of the „SAS principles“ amended by conceptual solutions of the financial side of protection of industrial property subjects also with the support of the SAS budget.
Industrial rights are characterized by their international nature, so I have made the issue of organizing and protecting their provisions not limited to the legislation of the countries of origin. In ...order to unify the legislation of countries in the field of protecting these rights and fighting counterfeiting, the Paris Convention of 1883 along the lines of the TRIPS Agreement included a set of unified provisions, These provisions aim to reconcile the legislation of countries in the field of protection granted to industrial property rights and an effective fight against imitation, showing the importance of these provisions in that they complement the principle of national treatment that these agreements brought in. These provisions are those that take a common character among all industrial property rights and those which are specific to some rights
This paper presents the main factors associated with the motivation of researchers from two universities in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, to develop patents. To do so, the researchers responded to ...a Likert-scale survey. Through a principal components analysis, it was verified that the factors that serve as barriers to the development of patents in the universities are associated with limitations in the support given by the TTO (Technology Transfer Office) and the amount of benefits offered to researchers. Likewise, the main motivating factors were associated with improvements in the TTO infrastructure and with the expansion of benefits.
Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar os principais fatores associados à motivação dos pesquisadores de duas universidades do Estado de Pernambuco, para o desenvolvimento de patentes. Para tal, foi solicitado que pesquisadores respondessem um questionário composto por afirmações em escalas likert. Foi efetuada uma análise de Componentes Principais onde constatou-se que os fatores que funcionam como barreiras ao desenvolvimento de patentes nas universidades estão relacionados com limitações no suporte oferecido pelo NIT (Núcleo de Inovação Tecnológica) e a quantidade de benefícios ofertados aos pesquisadores. Assim como, os principais fatores motivadores estiveram relacionados com melhoras na infraestrutura do NIT e a ampliação de benefícios concedidos aos pesquisadores.
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