The relationship between the patent and development: A view from chilean academic R&D

Abstract

By declaring that Sustainable Development Goal 9 activates others of the seventeen goals adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 on this regard, the World Intellectual Property Organization encourages governments to promote the relationship between the university and industry as the primary producers of patentable research results. Based on data collected between 2017-2018 in the seven universities that patent the most in Chile, we find that, first, there are relationships between the interviewees and the industry; second, most of the interviewees have patented; third, these patents do not arise from industry-university projects; and fourth, patenting is not perceived as a fundamental activity for development. Therefore, the Chilean R&D production model appears linear rather than triple helix.