Is there concordance between Science and Technology in Natural Science? Mapping the relationship among number of papers and patents from research on Cerrado plants.

We aim to evaluate the concordance level between Science and Technology in Natural Science, for this we investigated the relationship between the number of articles and patents resulting from Cerrado plant research. We found a significant concordance between scientific and technological publication patterns in Natural Sciences. Private companies, public universities, and natural person are the categories of patent assignees with more patents. Lastly, we found great importance of the Cerrado plant species to global technological development, where cosmetology is the main branch of economic bioprospecting. Therefore, it is crucial to produce studies aiming to promote both the conservation and technological development of sub-products of these plants. • There is concordance between Science and Technology in Natural Sciences. • Private companies are the main patent assignees of plant-based products. • Cosmetics is the main manufacturing segment of patents from Cerrado plants. • Cerrado plants are crucial for the global technological development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]