Les bouleversements économiques qui secouent le monde, n'ont pas épargné les pays en voie de développement comme l'Algérie et ont touché la quasi-totalité des secteurs économiques y compris ceux considérés comme stratégiques en bénéficiant de la protection de l'Etat, tels que le...

Avec une décennie d'existence timide en Algérie, l'intelligence économique est une discipline peu connue des académiciens et trop négligées des praticiens. D'abord, il y a un véritable problème de formation en IE. En effet, le peu de formations existantes en Algérie sont inspirées des...

The aim of this paper is to show the complexity of the political, legal, social and economic environments where the Algerian State-Owned Firms operate. These environments are qualified by "uncertainty" given the instability of the different parameters cited. Since 1988, Algeria has initiated...

This work addresses the relevance of establishing a Brazilian database consisting of public domain patent documents through the use of the International Patent Classification (IPC). Between 1971 and 2001, a total of 245,225 patent applications have been filed with the Brazilian Patent Office and...

Most of the online searches process through combinations made with boolean operators. We wish to show, in this paper, that it is very easy to search online databases differently. This concept involved searches grounded to non-boolean concepts.

This study shows the importance of patents as a source of technological information in Latin America. We studied the industrial property offices' websites and the kind of patent information available such as laws, gazette, statistics, cost, forms, and contacts. We found at the USPTO and PCT...