Innovation capabilities of companies depend on a variety of factors, such as R&D expenditure, knowledge management processes, culture, organization structure, management systems etc. In search of new, innovative ideas and solutions the undertakings tend to co-operate more and more often also colleges, universities and other public research institutions, in which research is actually one of their basic missions. If once the purpose and the pinnacle of scientific research work of scientists, employed at the universities and research institutes, was publication of research results in scientific magazines and presentations at the conferences (result of basic research), today the results of research are conveyed through patents, trademarks and other forms of commercial application to a much greater extent. In the research, presented in this paper, our aim was to indentify the strongest factors influencing the patent activity of the Slovenian researchers, employed at the universities and research institutes as the organizations of which the fundamental purpose and mission is research and scientific work as the source of innovations. We asked the researchers which factors either as incentive or as obstacle influence most their scientific research work and in this regard the patent activity in different phases of research process. Based on the results obtained through the research we can conclude that the Slovenian universities and research institution have still a lot of work to do in the field of increase of efficiency of the scientific research activity. However obstacles, which we have recorded in the research, are not to be understood and taken only as problems, preventing universities and other research organisation greater commercialisation of the scientific-research achievements and know-how, but also as a new opportunity, which is offered to them in this field.
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Datum:
13.06.2011.
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