Mapeamento tecnológico e científico da carnaúba

Abstract

Plant extractivism has a lot of relevance and importance for small rural producers from a financial point of view, as it represents an important source of supplementation of their incomes, especially for the population present in the north and northeast region of the country, in the northeast region there is a large incidence of exploitation of the carnauba palm (Copernicia prunifera), especially in the states of Piauí and Ceará, Thus, the carnauba tree is the main non-timber and non-food forest species, exploited by the Northeasterners. In view of this, it is necessary to study the innovations made using the carnauba palm, based on this assumption this work has as its general objective to carry out a technological and scientific mapping of the carnauba (Copernicia prunifera). In order to achieve this objective, it was necessary to carry out a search in the National Institute of Intellectual Property, for national patents and in Espacenet for international patents, in addition to carrying out bibliographic research in the Capes-Café, Spell, Scielo databases, the time frame used in the research will be from 2013 to 2023, an electronic spreadsheet was used to tabulate the data. According to the data collected, it was possible to identify that the year 2020 stood out with a higher incidence of patent filings and that most of these filings were made by companies, the data from the work also demonstrate the economic potential of carnaúba.