Knowledge areas in which universities from the South of Brazil develop patents

Abstract

The objective of the study is to analyze the patents granted in the
public universities from the South of Brazil in the knowledge areas – where they
come from and in which areas they are classified according to the International
Patent Classification -, and as specific objectives to map the public universities
from the South of the country and its patents; identify International Patent
Classification areas and knowledge areas of the National Council for Scientific
and Technological Development , to which the patents belong to; and establish
the contribution relation that each knowledge area of National Council for
Scientific and Technological Development performs in each International Patent
Classification area. The patents survey was conducted in the database of the
National Institute of Industrial Property. After collecting the classification
number, the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
table knowledge areas were crossed. The results recovered 11 public universities
that presented 68 granted patents. The section of the International Patent
Classification that presented the largest number of patent concessions was the
"C - Chemistry; Metallurgy", with 25 registrations. The knowledge areas of
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development that published
in the section were: Biochemistry, Civil Engineering, Materials and
Metallurgical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Sanitary Engineering and
Chemistry. The big area of "Engineering" was the one that obtained the largest 

volume of patents, totaling 24. The schooling of the most productive inventors,
who belong to the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, concentrated in the
area of Chemistry.