Patent Protection Management for Research Results of Research Entities in Poland

Concern for the economic development of the country, strengthened by the fear of falling into the so-called ‘middle income trap’, justifies the need to increase innovation by moving away from the exogenous, i.e. imitative, model and towards an endogenous model based on independent creation processes and using knowledge to spark innovation and technological progress. Such an approach requires strengthening activities aimed at stimulating research and development, the results of which would be widely used in economic practice and would contribute to the dynamic development thereof. The idea is to create innovations based to a greater extent on Polish ideas and discoveries. In the long term, only such discoveries can Abstract