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Patent and scientific publication data offer useful information for the analysis of key features of national systems of innovation of less developed countries. However, the use of these statistics should be subjected to careful evaluation. This chapter uses data for 120 countries (patents, scientific papers, and GDP), investigating different patterns of interactions between science and technology according to different levels of development. Later this chapter focuses on the data for India and Brazil, investigating interactions between science and technology in three dimensions: inter-sectoral, inter-regional, and inter-temporal.
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da Motta e Albuquerque, E. (2004). Science and Technology Systems in Less Developed Countries. In: Moed, H.F., Glänzel, W., Schmoch, U. (eds) Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2755-9_35
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