Estratégias de construção de redes colaborativas patentárias dos pesquisadores de produtividade do CNPq vinculados à rede Nordeste de Biotecnologia (RENORBIO) PATENTÁRIAS DOS PESQUISADORES DE PRODUTIVIDADE DO CNPq VINCULADOS À REDE NORDESTE DE BIOTECNOLOGIA (RENORBIO)

Abstract

Identifying the strategies employed by Renorbio researchers in constructing patent networks and their repercussions on the increase in scientific and technological production confer visibility to them in their scientific community. It is initially based on the hypothesis that Renorbio researchers have collaborative network formation as a strategy to maximize productivity, thus constituting a constant form of scientific collaboration that influences the increase in scientific and technological production. It is supported by Pierre Bourdieu's (1994, 2017) theories of field, habitus, capital, and strategies of reproduction. Subsidies were sought from Menzel (1966), Merton (1969), Price (1976), Beaver and Rosen (1978), Garvey and Griffith (1979), Le Coadic (1996), Meadows (1999), Vanz and Stumpf (2010), Schwartzman (2015), and Cupani (2016), among other authors, to construct the theoretical framework. It is argued that collaborative networks implemented during the construction of science are one of the representative forms of researcher interaction, as well as the strategies employed in their production, and that information and communication are essential to understand the dynamics of scientific production and communication, as well as the relationships that occur among scientists and the processes inherent in the production of science. Constructed in three stages, each responding to two specific objectives, the first stage developed a bibliometric study in which two assumptions were elaborated that contributed to understanding specific points of the research, as well as some statistical analyses that allowed correlating some variables. In response to the hypothesis of the first analysis, it was concluded that there is no relationship between research that results in patent deposits and/or grants and the publication of articles. The second stage analyzed the collaborative network, which made it possible to verify that the patent collaborative network is entirely concentrated, with the most central actors also among the most productive in patents, concluding that scientific collaboration is used as a strategy and has a significant influence on increasing scientific and technological production, more precisely of patents. The third and final stage was divided into the analysis of two dimensions. The first dimension explored the perception of Renorbio researchers regarding obtaining academic prestige and visibility, and the second dimension identified the strategies for increasing scientific and technological production and gaining scientific authority. This last stage showed that Renorbio researchers use collaborative networks as a strategy for increasing productivity, and furthermore, in the researchers' perception, the various partnerships they have built contribute substantially to boosting scientific and technological production. It is suggested that the relationship between patent production and article publication be investigated, comparing them with other biotechnology researcher networks. The research made a significant contribution to the study area by combining three different and complementary methodologies: bibliometric research, social network analysis, and the Likert scale, allowing for a broad view of the productive panorama of Renorbio. Moreover, it also demonstrated the need to introduce a more pronounced theoretical-discursive discussion from the Bourdieusian perspective applied to collaborative network studies in science, thus providing a possible model for studies that address similar themes to the one presented.