出版社:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要:The importance of patents as source of information and base for theelaboration of indicators of the technological production is increasinglyrecognized. The university is one of the main generating centres of researchin any R&D system. Thus, the analysis of the academic patents sheds lighton one of the aspects less studied of university research. This articlestudies the production of Spanish universities as patent applications at theSpanish Office of Patents and Marks between 1980 and 2000 included inthe Oepmpat database. Their institutional, geographical and temporarydistributions are analyzed from a bibliometric perspective, as well as theinventors. The results show that the participation of the university in thenational patent system is very limited; an institutional dispersion of theapplications and an important contribution to the final amount of a smallnumber of authors is observed.