The Contribution of Spanish Science to Patents: Medicine as Case of Study
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Cascajares Rupérez, Mila; Alcayde García, Alfredo; Garrido Cárdenas, José Antonio; Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco RogelioFecha
2020-05-21Resumen
Investments in research and development (R&D) and innovation are expensive, and one wishes to be assured that there is positive feedback and to receive guidance on how to direct investments in the future. The social or economic benefits of investments in R&D are of particular interest to policymakers. In this regard, public expense in research, especially through universities, is sometimes being questioned. This paper establishes a measure of how research in Spain, and specifically in its universities, is involved. In this study, we have analyzed all the literature cited in the period 1998–2018 produced by Spanish institutions and which has been cited in at least one international patent, obtaining more than 40,000 publications from more than 160,000 different authors. The data have been surprisingly positive, showing that practically all public universities contribute to this subject and that there is a great deal of international collaboration, both in terms of the number of countrie...
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patents
Spain
bibliometrics
Research and Development (R&D)
social returns