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The aim of this study is the analysis of a sort of document and scientific and technological result: the patent. Proposing a group of specific indicators to this source to go deeper in the discovery of technological knowledge in big data bases and also from the analysis of their results; a greater international cover for innovative decision making in business, industry and academy. The Cuban patents issued in the United States in the last ten years are taken as study case in order to validate the proposal and its intentions and from that information the most important producer and dealers of technologies in Cuba, the most productive research centers and researchers, as well as the most innovative provinces or regions, also obtaining the cooperation between institutional sectors and researchers, the most innovative subjects and so on; this allows a greater number of indicators, a greater discovery of technological knowledge and the comprehensive description of the innovative activity in the analyzed domain; at the same time this allows to count on greater number of possibilities when making strategic decisions. This kind of analysis provides more reliable and consensual criteria which are also more advantageous for decision making in relation to innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]