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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2020
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- Incorporation of Knowledge through acquisition in the Pharmaceutical Industry: an analysis focused on patent inventors Murilo Montanari de Matos Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales) Patents Acquisitions Small enterprises Pharmaceutical industry This article focuses on the incorporation of knowledge conducted by large pharmaceutical corporations through the acquisition of small enterprises. The objective was to evidence to which degree the incorporation of knowledge is performed by a sample of 8 large pharmaceutical companies. In order to do this, we rely on qualitative methods, based on a sample of eight companies and 54 small enterprises they acquired in the period from 2005 to 2012. From the sample we compiled the patents granted to the small firms within the USPTO. The analysis conducted develops two central actions. The first is the inventor’s usage, defined as the small enterprises inventors, which when incorporated by large pharmaceutical corporations started to develop patents through the acquiring larger company. The second is the incorporation of research trajectories, which means how inventors cite their past work as they are incorporated into the larger companies. This article concludes that the incorporation of inventors is a relevant strategy among the large companies studied so that these companies can incorporate external knowledge bases from the acquired smaller enterprises; however, just a few inventors are incorporated, which shows that just a small group of people conducts innovative research for large companies. This article contribution was to categorically evidence the incorporation of knowledge through new metrics, being them: inventor’s usage and research trajectory incorporation. 2020 artículo científico 1677-2504 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=641771989015 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6417/641771989015/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6417/641771989015/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6417/641771989015/641771989015.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6417/641771989015/movil 10.20396/rbi.v19i0.8658178 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=6417 Revista Brasileira de Inovação application/pdf Universidade Estadual de Campinas Revista Brasileira de Inovação (Brasil) Vol.19