Motivation for the development of patents in universities in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil

Jabson Herber Profiro De Oliveira,João Policarpo Rodrigues Lima,Ana Cristina De Almeida Fernandes,Manoel Raimundo Sena Junior

doi:10.1590/0104-530x4710-20

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Journal: Gestão & Produção	Publication Date: Jan 1, 2020
Citations: 1	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Abstract

Abstract: 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.

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The university plays the key role of promoting and developing knowledge in a society
As well as in the population, there was a greater presence of inventors from University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in the sample
The Technology Transfer Offices (TTO) serves as an intermediary between the university and the industry (Markman et al, 2005); the skills required for a TTO manager seems to be more compatible with an experienced market professional than with a researcher traditionally oriented to the academia, given that one of the tasks of this professional will be to intermediate the university-market duality, reconciling the cultures of these different environments (Muscio, 2010)

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The university plays the key role of promoting and developing knowledge in a society. In the new paradigm of the knowledge economy, its role has been to supply technology to the productive sector (innovation), besides the formation of human resources and research development itself (Haase et al, 2005). The literature describes the North American pioneerism in the practice of academic patenting and in the university-industry collaboration in the last decades of the twentieth century (Henderson et al, 1998). This period has witnessed the expansion of research funding by the private sector throughout American universities (Foltz et al, 2012). Among the goals of patenting is the recovery of the costs of research (Henderson et al, 1998; Markman et al, 2005)

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