Znaczenie systemu patentowego dla konwergencji technologicznej i stymulowania aktywności wynalazczej
The Importance of the Patent System for Technological Convergence and Stimulating the Inventive Activity

Summary/Abstract: The first part of the paper discusses the concepts of economic and technological convergence in the light of a literature review. The second part includes author’s own analysis of the importance of the patent system for technological convergence and stimulating the inventive activity. The analysis is carried out using bibliometric tools. The author tries to measure technological distance between Polish and foreign enterprises and indicate the importance of various sources of technological innovation. Main directions of diffusion of technical knowledge and the size of technological lags are determined according to the source documentation regarding the state of technology in three selected Polish enterprises representing different industrial branches. Technological distance is determined according to the time lag between new technical solutions used in those enterprises and analogous solutions earlier introduced by other subjects in the country or in other countries. The results do not confirm the thesis expressed in the literature about stronger diffusion of knowledge within the country than on global scale. The identification of original inventions has shown that invention activity in Polish enterprises is equally frequently based on domestic and foreign solutions.

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