AGRIBUSINESS INNOVATIVE DYNAMICS: TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION IN THE INDUSTRIAL AVICULTURE THROUGH PATENTS ANALYSIS

Abstract

Patent search and analysis was used as a tool to assess the technological innovation in industrial aviculture. The search covered four of the main patent data banks of the world, analyzing a total of 3.104 documents. The analysis showed the high degree of innovation and inventiveness in the United States, the Netherlands and Japan in different technological areas of the industrial aviculture (poultry industry), like genetics, nutrition, health and machines and equipments. American and European patent deposits concentrate in certain technological areas, like genetics, and Japanese holders diversified patents throughout several areas, like chemical products and processes, and human health. As for the deposit strategies, the patent flux analysis pointed out the United States as the country that received the largest number of foreign patents. In Brazil, a relatively large number of the deposited patents is hold by foreign companies whose respective technological area is referred most often to machines and equipments. In general, the analysis of the patents showed a group of selected companies, mainly from the United States and the Netherlands, as holders of a significant percentage of the deposits worldwide. Specifically for Brazil, the national poultry industry does not base its technological strategy upon patentation, but relies on a technological standard developed and delivered by suppliers.