The Contribution of Spanish Science to Patents: Medicine as Case of Study
Investments in research and development (R&D) and innovation are expensive, and one wishes to be assured that there is positive feedback and to receive guidance on how to direct investments in the future. The social or economic benefits of investments in R&D are of particular interest to pol...
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| author | Cascajares Rupérez, Mila Alcayde García, Alfredo Garrido Cárdenas, José Antonio Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco |
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| description | Investments in research and development (R&D) and innovation are expensive, and one wishes to be assured that there is positive feedback and to receive guidance on how to direct investments in the future. The social or economic benefits of investments in R&D are of particular interest to policymakers. In this regard, public expense in research, especially through universities, is sometimes being questioned. This paper establishes a measure of how research in Spain, and specifically in its universities, is involved. In this study, we have analyzed all the literature cited in the period 1998–2018 produced by Spanish institutions and which has been cited in at least one international patent, obtaining more than 40,000 publications from more than 160,000 different authors. The data have been surprisingly positive, showing that practically all public universities contribute to this subject and that there is a great deal of international collaboration, both in terms of the number of countries with which they collaborate and the prestige of the institutions involved. Regarding the specific scientific fields in which this collaboration is most relevant, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and medicine together account for almost 40% of the total works. The topics most used by these publications were those of diseases or medical problems such as: Neoplams, Carcinoma, Alzheimer Disease, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). Oncology was according to the All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) the leading and central issue. Therefore, although the result of basic research is difficult to quantify, when it is observed that there is a return in fields such as medicine or global health, it can be said that it is well employed. In terms of journals from a purely bibliometric point of view, it has been observed that some journals do not have a great impact or relative position within their categories, but they do have a great relevance in this area of patent support. Therefore, it would be worthwhile to set up a rank for scientific journals based on the citations of patents, so the percentage of articles cited in patents with Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) >1, and as an indicator of scientific transfer from universities or research centres, the transference index in patents (TIP) is also proposed. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-82672023-09-26T11:55:39Z The Contribution of Spanish Science to Patents: Medicine as Case of Study Cascajares Rupérez, Mila Alcayde García, Alfredo Garrido Cárdenas, José Antonio Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco Scival patents Spain bibliometrics Research and Development (R&D) social returns Investments in research and development (R&D) and innovation are expensive, and one wishes to be assured that there is positive feedback and to receive guidance on how to direct investments in the future. The social or economic benefits of investments in R&D are of particular interest to policymakers. In this regard, public expense in research, especially through universities, is sometimes being questioned. This paper establishes a measure of how research in Spain, and specifically in its universities, is involved. In this study, we have analyzed all the literature cited in the period 1998–2018 produced by Spanish institutions and which has been cited in at least one international patent, obtaining more than 40,000 publications from more than 160,000 different authors. The data have been surprisingly positive, showing that practically all public universities contribute to this subject and that there is a great deal of international collaboration, both in terms of the number of countries with which they collaborate and the prestige of the institutions involved. Regarding the specific scientific fields in which this collaboration is most relevant, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and medicine together account for almost 40% of the total works. The topics most used by these publications were those of diseases or medical problems such as: Neoplams, Carcinoma, Alzheimer Disease, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). Oncology was according to the All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) the leading and central issue. Therefore, although the result of basic research is difficult to quantify, when it is observed that there is a return in fields such as medicine or global health, it can be said that it is well employed. In terms of journals from a purely bibliometric point of view, it has been observed that some journals do not have a great impact or relative position within their categories, but they do have a great relevance in this area of patent support. Therefore, it would be worthwhile to set up a rank for scientific journals based on the citations of patents, so the percentage of articles cited in patents with Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) >1, and as an indicator of scientific transfer from universities or research centres, the transference index in patents (TIP) is also proposed. 2020-05-27T08:51:49Z 2020-05-27T08:51:49Z 2020-05-21 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1660-4601 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/8267 en https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/10/3638 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | Scival patents Spain bibliometrics Research and Development (R&D) social returns Cascajares Rupérez, Mila Alcayde García, Alfredo Garrido Cárdenas, José Antonio Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco The Contribution of Spanish Science to Patents: Medicine as Case of Study |
| title | The Contribution of Spanish Science to Patents: Medicine as Case of Study |
| title_full | The Contribution of Spanish Science to Patents: Medicine as Case of Study |
| title_fullStr | The Contribution of Spanish Science to Patents: Medicine as Case of Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Contribution of Spanish Science to Patents: Medicine as Case of Study |
| title_short | The Contribution of Spanish Science to Patents: Medicine as Case of Study |
| title_sort | contribution of spanish science to patents: medicine as case of study |
| topic | Scival patents Spain bibliometrics Research and Development (R&D) social returns |
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