Assistive Technologies and Its Applications: An Analysis From Patents

Authors

  • Franklin Menezes da Silva
  • Priscila Rezende da Costa Universidade Nove de Julho - UNINOVE.
  • Renato Ribeiro Nogueira Ferraz Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração (PPGA), Programa de Mestrado Profissional em Administração - Gestão em Sistemas de Saúde (PMPA-GSS), Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE)"
  • Luc Quoniam
  • David Reymond Université de Toulon - Institut Méditerranéen des Sciences de l'Information et de Communication (IMSIC - EA 4262).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5585/rgss.v7i1.393

Keywords:

Patents, Assistive Technologies, Innovation

Abstract

The objective of this study was to map the assistive technologies and their applications from the patent applications, considering that such technologies are products and / or mechanisms that will foster social inclusion of people with disabilities. The database used in this research was Espacenet and the INPI, with about 90 million registered documents. Were found 616 documents related to assistive technologies in a period of 15 years, from 2000 to 2015. Specifically, the results revealed that the application of assistive technologies for physical and visual disabilities are concentrated in four classes of patents involving (A61G5) "chairs or personal transport specially adapted for disabled patients or disabled" (A61H3) "devices to help disabled people to move around," (A61G7) "beds and devices for lifting patients or disabled" and (A61F2) "prostheses and artificial substitutes for body parts". It was also established that China is the key country in the registration of patents relating to the application of assistive technology and, in addition, is also the country that centralizes most of the inventors and depositors.

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Author Biographies

Franklin Menezes da Silva

Mestre em Administração na Linha de Inovação na Universidade Nove de Julho - UNINOVE. , São Paulo (Brasil).

Priscila Rezende da Costa, Universidade Nove de Julho - UNINOVE.

Doutora em Administração pela Universidade de São Paulo – FEA/USP, São Paulo (Brasil). Professora do Programa de Pós-graduação em Administração – PPGA/UNINOVE, São Paulo (Brasil).

Luc Quoniam

Université de Toulon - Institut Méditerranéen des Sciences de l'Information et de Communication (IMSIC - EA 4262)

Published

2018-04-01

How to Cite

da Silva, F. M., da Costa, P. R., Ferraz, R. R. N., Quoniam, L., & Reymond, D. (2018). Assistive Technologies and Its Applications: An Analysis From Patents. Revista De Gestão Em Sistemas De Saúde, 7(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.5585/rgss.v7i1.393