...Vitor Hugo da Silva Vaz; Jorge Maikel Alves Batista; Ana Eleonora Almeida Paixão Purpose This study aims to analyze the correlation between the investments in the Brazilian Space Agency (BSA) and the patenting process. Design/methodology/approach The methodology used was a statistical analysis...

... patent registers, identified from the same set of words related to ESTs, using semantic search in open-access databases, covering a period from 2005 to 2014, were examined. The two data sets (patents and research groups) were overlaid, and it was possible to associate inventors’ names with researchers...