AVALIAÇÃO DO PROGRAMA PROFINT-INPI NA DISSEMINAÇÃO DA INFORMAÇÃO TECNOLÓGICA CONTIDA EM DOCUMENTOS DE PATENTES

• Ano de defesa: 1998
• Autor(a) principal: Ricardo Orlandi Franca
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ciência da Informação; Patentes Inovações tecnologicas; Disseminação seletiva da informação; Patentes
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/LHLS-69XPXP

This researchs fulcrum is the information assimilation from patents, by technologists working in industrial R&D sector. Aspects of that matter were analyzed through some characteristics of industries contracting PROFINT/INPI programme, which intends to bring technologists closer to specialized information by the automatic shipping of patents' first page to them.Due to incertanties from sample size, results were compared with ANPEI 1994 and 1995 brazilian industry databases. Our sample showed a tendency that industries owning a R&D center use more equivalent-employees and spend more resources than others. Also, largest industries seems to invest a bigger share of budget and personnel in R&D activities than the smaller. However, when compared to ANPEI average, sample companies showed greater R&D costs with modest performance and greater mean annual per patent cost. Also, industries without R&D center have more patent requests, reflecting their status of multinationals exploiting abroad-developed technologies.Structuring of bibliographical sources like journals, monographs, standards, drawings and catalogs collections was researched, plus patent's first pages and complete documents. It was found that R&D center existence induces the improvement of technical documents organization, leads to larger search of full patents and avoids their dispersal through company. The same was found related to patent databases consulting to get technological information and to follow juridical aspects of industrial property.The PROFINT programme short range is deduced by the small number of effective contracts, related to the industry sheer size. It hasn't yet got the effectiveness it needs to become an important instrument for information dissemination to the industry.