Following the Organization of Economic and Cooperation and Development
recommendations, we have used patent data comprised in the PATENTSCOPE database as …

Although female involvement in science and technology has been growing over recent
years, it is still low. Latin America is no exception. Even though the Latin American region …

By their nature, patents allow for the protection of creations or inventions in various
technological sectors and in countries of commercial or industrial interest. They also record …

Patents have historically been considered the prime catalogs of innovation [1]. More recent
studies have also used patents as important indicators of the level of research activity [2] …

Background: This paper examines nanotechnology patents in Mexico to gain some insights
into: a) the growth of patents over the last twenty years; b) the distribution of assignee …

Much work has been done about the quality of patents as a tool to improve economic
growth. However, investigations concerning the analysis of women's participation in …

Analyzing the domestic patent records filed with the United State Patent and Trademark
Office (USPTO) in the 16-year time period from 1990 to 2005, this study benchmarks the …

This paper analyzes the gender of inventors in international patent applications. We compile
a worldwide gender-name dictionary, which includes 6.2 million names for 182 different …

The production of knowledge stock is essential for the long-term growth of a nation. One
component of knowledge stock is patents. The publication of patents, nevertheless, is …

This study shows the importance of patents as a source of technological information in Latin
America. We studied the industrial property offices' websites and the kind of patent …