Uma Análise da Produção Técnica e de Colégios Invisíveis com Ênfase nas Patentes Brasileiras

Analyzes of scientific collaboration networks have been extensively explored in research from different areas of knowledge, in view of their ability to identify how groups of researchers have carried out their work collectively. Such studies make it possible to identify how collaboration between individuals occurs through analyzes based on social network metrics. In this context, new studies have been proposed in order to analyze collaboration in the development of technical products, with data on patents being studied in most studies. This type of analysis is relevant because it makes it possible to understand the collaboration process in the proposal of new inventions. In this work, initially a general characterization of the group of individuals analyzed is presented, and afterwards, a global and temporal analysis of the collaboration network is performed in the proposal of patents of Brazilian individuals with curricula registered in the Lattes Platform. For that, all the patents registered in the curricula of these individuals were used for the identification and characterization of the collaboration networks. As a result, it is possible to see how collaboration in the proposed inventions of the analyzed set has been intensified over the years, with an emphasis on the institutions and areas of expertise of each inventor.