Intellectual Property and Innovation as a Way to Enable Technological Development in the Agribusiness Sector

Abstract

This article deals with intellectual property, the process of innovation and technological development in the agribusiness sector, and aims to identify and understand the relationship between these themes, in order to know whether intellectual property and innovation are able to foster technological development in this sector. The methodology is meta-analysis, of quantitative approach, preceded by bibliometry and systematic review. The overall result shows that there is a positively high correlation between intellectual property, innovation and technological development in the agribusiness sector, as the result of the meta-analysis was a Pearson's r value of 0.55.