Transfer of Agricultural and Biological Sciences Research to Patents: The Case of EU-27
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Cascajares Rupérez, Mila; Alcayde García, Alfredo; Salmerón Manzano, Esther María; Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco RogelioDate
2021-01-29Abstract
Agriculture as an economic activity and agronomy as a science must provide food for a constantly growing population. Research in this field is therefore becoming increasingly essential. Much of the research is carried out in academic institutions and then developed in the private sector. Patents do not have to be issued through scientific institutions. Patents from scientific institutions are intended to have a certain economic return on the investment made in research when the patent is transferred to industry. A bibliometric analysis was carried out using the Scopus and SciVal databases. This study analyses all the research carried out in the field of agronomy and related sciences (Agricultural and Biological Sciences category of Scopus database) by EU-27 countries, which has been cited in at least one international patent. The data show that out of about 1 million published works only about 28,000 have been used as a source of patents. This study highlights the main countries and in...
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