[Incremental innovation in healthcare in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic].

ABSTRACT:

Objective

It is important to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on incremental innovation and its protection through industrial property rights, in order to acquiring valuable insights to develop effective public policies and corporate strategies. The objective was to analyze incremental innovations in response to the pandemic that have been protected by industrial property rights, and to examine whether the COVID-19 pandemic had a positive or negative effect on incremental innovation, promoting or inhibiting it.

Methods

Utility models in the health patent class have been used as indicators (01.01.20 to 31.12.21), since the information they provide and their characteristics (requirements of applications and publication) allowed us to obtain preliminary conclusion

SUBMITTER: Arguello A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10541244 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature