Diffusion of knowledge in the biotechnology sector

Małgorzata Niklewicz-Pijaczyńska

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/20184400125

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to analyze the use of existing legally protected solutions an. publications made available through patent systems for the development of further biotechnological inventions. For its implementation, was conducted research based on the so-called patent citations of two kinds - to literature and previously published, other patents. For the needs of the paper, technical documentation of 88 patents in the resources of the Polish Patent Office and Espacenet was analyzed. The study includes 40 Polish biotechnology companies with significant innovation activity. The results of the conducted research allow to formulate two conclusions. First, the knowledge obtained from patent resources plays an important role in the innovation process of inventions in the biotechnology sector. Secondly, this knowledge is characterized by a high degree of internationalization, first of all are cited foreign inventions and source literature, domestic citations appear relatively rarely. Among observed references, citing American achievements plays a dominant role – this applies to both literature and inventions, which suggests that the US patent system is the main source of patent knowledge for Polish biotechnology companies.

Highlights

In knowledge-based economy, biotechnology understood as the technological application of biological systems, living organisms and their derivatives to produce new or modified products and processes, it is a branch of industry and at the same time a field of science that sets trends and a direction for the development of the most modern breakthroughs. It is a branch in which the compatibility of medical, economic and scientific challenges leads to the continual emergence of new solutions
Visible in the literature on the subject, in jurisprudence and economic practice disputes over the legitimacy of patenting biotechnological inventions, show that this area requires determined actions aimed at understanding mutual relationships between intellectual property rights and the effectiveness of technology transfer, protection and sustainable use of biodiversity and non-discriminatory distribution of benefits obtained from genetic resources, including the protection of extremely specialized knowledge [1]
The inclusion of biotechnological inventions in a network of institutionally protected solutions opens the potential to intensify the process of diffusion of knowledge, especially valuable knowledge, and, it happens, that nowhere else is shared

Summary

Introduction

In knowledge-based economy, biotechnology understood as the technological application of biological systems, living organisms and their derivatives to produce new or modified products and processes, it is a branch of industry and at the same time a field of science that sets trends and a direction for the development of the most modern breakthroughs. It is a branch in which the compatibility of medical, economic and scientific challenges leads to the continual emergence of new solutions. The resources of the Polish patent system and, for the purposes of verification and supplementation, the ESPACENET database were used to obtain the necessary documentation

Diffusion of knowledge in the field of biotechnology

Technical documentation of inventions as a tool for acquiring new knowledge

Diffusion of biotechnology knowledge on the example of selected enterprises

Findings

Summary