ARE INDIVIDUAL INVENTORS INVISIBLE? THE MISSING LINK BETWEEN CREATIVE PEOPLE AND SUPPORT FOR INNOVATION

Violeta Šugar, Alen Belullo and Emin Džanić
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Violeta Šugar: Faculty of Economics and Tourism „Dr. Mijo Mirković“, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia
Alen Belullo: Faculty of Economics and Tourism „Dr. Mijo Mirković“, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia
Emin Džanić: Faculty of Economics and Tourism „Dr. Mijo Mirković“, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia

Ekonomski pregled, 2021, vol. 72, issue 6, 840-868

Abstract: The research about the population of individual inventors/innovators in Croatia was carried out with the aim of finding answers to the following questions: 1. How many inventions/patent sin Croatia are (not) commercialized; 2. What are the reasons of (un)successful commercialization of Croatian individual investors' inventions/patents; 3. Is there any correlation between various forms of support for inventors / patent owners and successful commercialization of inventions/patents? The research was designed and carried out on individual inventors/innovators in Croatia via combination of online questionnaire and telephone interviews. The acquired data were analysed by descriptive statistics and nonparametric inferential statistics. Based on the results of the research, the literature and practical experience, a typology of individual inventors / innovators has been created. The research limitations relate to the lack of the institutional data and literature regarding the individual inventors. In addition to practical contribution of the findings regarding the public policies, there is also a theoretical contribution to existing literature.

Keywords: innovation management; individual inventor; innovation education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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