Collaboration in Technological Development: an Analysis Based on Patent Proposition Networks

Resumo

Analyzes of scientific collaboration networks have been widely explored for some time in research in
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 process of collaboration in proposing
new inventions. In this work, a general characterization of the group of individuals analyzed is initially presented,
and after that, a global and temporal analysis of the collaboration network in the patent proposal of Brazilian
individuals with CVs registered on the Lattes Platform is carried out. For this, all patents registered in the curricula
of these individuals were used for the identification and characterization of 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 emphasis on the institutions and areas of activity of each inventor.