Are Individual Innovators Invisible?

Violeta Sugar (), Alen Belullo () and Emin Dzanic ()
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Violeta Sugar: Faculty of Economics and Tourism ?Dr. Mijo Mirkovi??, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia
Alen Belullo: Faculty of Economics and Tourism ?Dr. Mijo Mirkovi??, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia
Emin Dzanic: Medicopharmacia

International Journal of Business and Management, 2019, vol. 7, issue 1, 104-124

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/patents in Croatia are (not) commercialized; 2. What are the reasons of (un)successful commercialization of Croatian individual inventors' inventions/patents; 3. Is there any correlation between various forms of support for inventors / patent owners and successful commercialization; 4. Could education/training contribute to the successful commercialization of inventions/patents? The research was carried out on individual inventors/innovators in Croatia via combination of online questionnaire and telephone interviews. The acquired data were analyzed by descriptive statistics. Based on the results of the research, the literature and practical experience of the project ?Innovation Management?, which took place at the Faculty of economics and tourism "Dr. Mijo Mirkovic", a typology of Croatian individual inventors / innovators has been created.

Keywords: innovation management; individual inventor/innovator; innovation eco system; education; support for commercialization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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