Analysis of the Growth in the Number of Patents Granted and Its Effect over the Level of Growth of the Countries: An Econometric Estimation of the Mixed Model Approach

Rubilar-Torrealba, Rolando; Chahuán-Jiménez, Karime; Fuente‐Mella, Hanns de la

doi:10.3390/su14042384

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“…A patent is a legal title that protects an invention. Patent documents are a source of technological information and an indicator of R&D performance, and they can also be harnessed to guide policymaking decisions [71][72][73].…”

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Do the Main Developers of Electrical and Electronic Equipment Comply with the Precepts of the Circular Economy Concepts? A Patent-Based Approach

Juchneski

Antunes

2022

Sustainability

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The unceasing demand for electronic equipment has led to numerous problems, such as environmental damage and raw material shortages. The adoption of circular production chains and the precepts of the circular economy when designing electronic equipment could minimize these problems by fostering the reuse of resources without loss of quality or value. The scientific literature has many studies on the importance of circular production, but there are no data to demonstrate whether the scientific information produced on the circular economy and circular production is being taken up by industry. This study analyzes whether patent applications for inventions applicable to the production of electronic equipment meet the precepts of the circular economy. To this end, a study of patent documents was conducted. A total of 3638 documents were retrieved. Their analysis revealed that the technologies developed by the leading patent applicants and manufacturers are mainly from the first link in the production chain, materials, and components. The solutions proposed tend to be geared toward equipment efficiency and reduced energy consumption, which may indirectly increase the equipment’s useful life and save energy. Despite the existence of laws and research highlighting the importance of feeding used materials back into the production process, the developers of electronic equipment have not yet turned their attention to the recycling and retrieval of materials for their use as inputs for new components.

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Section: Industrial Property As a Source Of Technological Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do the Main Developers of Electrical and Electronic Equipment Comply with the Precepts of the Circular Economy Concepts? A Patent-Based Approach

Juchneski

Antunes

2022

Sustainability

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“…Bearing in mind that developed countries are characterized by a significant fund of technological knowledge and human capital (Alnuaimi et al, 2012), as well as appropriate institutional frameworks related to the protection of patents, that is, intellectual property rights (Candelin-Palmqvist et al, 2012), it can be concluded that developed countries may have better abilities to maximize utility from patents. Based on the analysis of data from 99 countries in the period 1996-2018, Rubilar-Torrealba et al (2022 claim that the more developed a country is, the more patents it tends to have. The increase in the number of patents can contribute to the development of innovations that can have a positive impact on economic growth (Marjanović et al, 2019;Caseiro & Simões, 2019;Pradhan et al, 2019).…”

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Does the Increase in the Number of Registered Patents Affect Economic Growth? - Evidence from Romania and Bulgaria

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Marjanović,

Ahmetagić

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The goal of this paper is to determine whether the increase in the number of registered patents per million inhabitants, as a measure of market verification of the results of R&D activities, affects economic growth and the increase in the country's innovation index. The empirical research covered two countries - Romania and Bulgaria. Given that the main task in the research was to accurately measure the investigated phenomena and discover the connection between them, the analysis was based on a quantitative research design. The analysis used secondary data from the international databases of the World Bank and World Intellectual Property Organization, covering the period from 2008 to 2018. The results of the empirical research showed that no correlations were found, which means that in the cases of Romania and Bulgaria, there is no dependence between the increase in the number of registered patents per million inhabitants and the growth of the innovation index and GDP per capita.

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“…Patent documents, although not necessarily corresponding to innovations introduced on the market, play an important role in the innovation process, allowing the identification of technological domains that could be covered by new inventions and the relevant technologies, searches for potential partners for the development of new technologies and innovations, and the movements of other scientific, technological and market actors [15][16][17]. The relevance of technological information from the analysis of patents intensifies as an annual growth in patent documents in the world has been observed; these patents cover all technological fields and can be accessed in national or international offices with electronic media, whose systematization presents objective criteria to perform searches and collect data [18]. In 2020 alone, 3.3 million patents were filed worldwide.…”

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Status and Trends of Membrane Technology for Wastewater Treatment: A Patent Analysis

2022

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Global access to clean water and sanitation has been broadly discussed in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations. In this context, membrane technology has been increasingly applied with great success in wastewater treatment. Considering the relevance of patent information for understanding the current status and future trends of technologies, the patent filings on membrane technology for wastewater treatment in the period from 2011 to 2019 were analyzed. This study comprised a global analysis, aimed at determining the most general aspects, and a qualitative analysis, which consisted of a careful reading of the documents to assess technological statuses and trends. From a total of 7303 patent documents found on the topic, 488 documents were selected for the qualitative analysis. China, Japan and the United States play a leading role in the development of these technologies. Companies constitute the vast majority of the applicants. The focus of the inventions turned out to be: equipment, membranes, customized equipment/processes for specific wastewaters, fouling control and cleaning, combinations of technologies and sustainability. Finally, enhancements in the operational performance of the membrane separation equipment and the development of membrane materials with increased water flow and fouling resistance are found to be key factors to broaden the application of membrane separation technology in wastewater treatment.

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Analysis of the Growth in the Number of Patents Granted and Its Effect over the Level of Growth of the Countries: An Econometric Estimation of the Mixed Model Approach

Cited by 6 publications

References 48 publications

Do the Main Developers of Electrical and Electronic Equipment Comply with the Precepts of the Circular Economy Concepts? A Patent-Based Approach

Do the Main Developers of Electrical and Electronic Equipment Comply with the Precepts of the Circular Economy Concepts? A Patent-Based Approach

Does the Increase in the Number of Registered Patents Affect Economic Growth? - Evidence from Romania and Bulgaria

Status and Trends of Membrane Technology for Wastewater Treatment: A Patent Analysis

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