Awakening the Biodiversity Potential Trough ST&I Investments in the Sector of Amazonian Biotechnology

• Main Authors: Fabiana dos Santos e Souza Frickmann, Alexandre Guimarães Vasconcellos
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Alberto Hurtado 2013-04-01
• Series: Journal of Technology Management & Innovation
• Subjects: Brazil; Amazonia; public investments; biotechnology; patents; science, technology and innovation (ST&I); research and development (R&D); innovation; amazonian bioproducts; sustainability
• Online Access: http://www.jotmi.org/index.php/GT/article/view/1216

The biotechnological development conciliated to Amazonian biodiversity represents a big potential for richness to Brazil. This study analyses the Brazilian investments in ST&I Amazonia’s, utilizing as indicator for that, the resources applied in R&D and the patent appli;cations coming from Amazon, which were filed with the National Institute of Industrial Property during the period from 2003 to 2008. The objective is to analyze how where such investments applied by the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MCTI), and which was their impact over the biotechnological inventions of Amazonian origin. In the results, we observed that R$ 1,308.09 million was invested in ST&I in Amazonia. The Amazonian state that attracted the larger part of such resources was Amazonas and 153 patent applications were identified coming from the state of Amazonas; out of which, 56% derived from companies of the Manaus Industrial Pole, and 9% originated from biomedical and alimentary sectors.