Romero-de-Pablos, et al, Internationalisation of patents by public research organisations from a historical and an economic perspective PROC OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTL CONF OF THE ISSI, VOLS I AND II 677-684, 2007

[Eugene Garfield]

Email address: anaromero at ifs.csic.es

Author(s): Romero-de-Pablos, A (Romero-de-Pablos, Ana); Azagra-Caro, JM 
(Azagra-Caro, Joaquin M.) 
Title: Internationalisation of patents by public research organisations 
from a historical and an economic perspective 

Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF
 
Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE 
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 
677-684, 2007
 
Language: English 
Document Type: Article 

Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International-
Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics 

Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 

Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN 

Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & 
Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, 
Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ 
Carlos III Madrid 

Author Keywords: academic patents; internationalisation; PRO 

KeyWords Plus: UNIVERSITY 

Abstract: Concerns on the organisation of science about how academics 
generate patents tend to focus on a single set of patents, either national 
or international. The main objective of this research is to study both in 
order to understand their differences. We adopt historical and economic 
perspectives to address the issue, with data from the Spanish National 
Research Council (CSIC), the largest PRO in Spain. We distinguish three 
periods in the history of CSIC, according to the political context: 
dictatorship (1939-1975), transition to democracy (19761986) and democracy 
(1987-to date). The legal and institutional framework conditioned the 
evolution of patenting by CSIC along these periods, finally characterised 
by a strong internationalisation of patents. For the late period, we 
explore the trends of some other economic inputs of patents and we show 
that not all of them lead to every kind of patents. We conclude that the 
political and normative context may shape the culture of 
internationalisation of patents at PRO like CSIC and that increasing 
technological cooperation has supported this internationalisation. 
However, very often foreign partners are included in the application to 
extend protection abroad for commercial reasons, so their number may not 
be a good indicator of inventive activity. 

Addresses: CSIC, Inst Filosofia, Dept Ciencia Tecnol & Soc, Madrid, E-
28006 Spain. 

Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI 
Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 
2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM 

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