The use of the information contained in patent documents in the Competitive Intelligence practices: a study of the patents of UFMG

Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação

Souza, Renato Rocha¹  Petrobrás¹  Fundação Getúlio Vargas¹  Teixeira, Renata Cristina¹ 

关键词: Competitive intelligence;    Technological information;    Industrial property;    Patent.;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1413-99362013000100008

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais * Escola de Biblioteconomia

【 摘 要 】

This paper presents the Competitive Intelligence (CI) as a tool for risk minimizing during the decision-making process. It presents the CI concept, its history and its processes. It features the patent document as an information source of great importance for technological information retrieving and, consequently, as a tool for CI practices. It presents the analysis of knowledge protected through patent documents filed by the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil and abroad, published by November 2012.

【 授权许可】

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