Enabling policy planning and innovation management through patent information and co-authorship network analyses: a study of tuberculosis in Brazil.

INTRODUCTION: New tools and approaches are necessary to facilitate public policy planning and foster the management of innovation in countries' public health systems. To this end, an understanding of the integrated way in which the various actors who produce scientific knowledge and inventions...

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Main Authors: Alexandre Guimarães Vasconcellos, Carlos Medicis Morel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3463609?pdf=render