Abstract

The article introduces inventors’ activities and inventors’ societies in Latvia in the 18th century, when it was part of tsarist Russia, until 2019. There is only one study on inventors’ activities, which includes the interwar period. There are many engineers among inventors, and this study reflects the participation of students, graduates and lecturers of Riga Polytechnicum (RP), Riga Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Riga Technical University (RTU) in inventors’ activities. The research provides an insight into the history of protection of inventions, inventors’ activities, international exhibitions of inventions and innovations, activities of inventors’ societies.

Highlights

  • The history of scientific-technological inventions and the protection of rights of inventors go deep into the past

  • Invention has a long history in Latvia, but the rights of inventors have been protected by patents for almost a hundred years

  • More than half a hundred inventors have united in the Latvian Society of Inventors, but the number of people who have turned to inventions is much higher

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Summary

HISTORY OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES AND INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

The article introduces inventors’ activities and inventors’ societies in Latvia in the 18th century, when it was part of tsarist Russia, until 2019. There is only one study on inventors’ activities, which includes the interwar period. There are many engineers among inventors, and this study reflects the participation of students, graduates and lecturers of Riga Polytechnicum (RP), Riga Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Riga Technical University (RTU) in inventors’ activities. The research provides an insight into the history of protection of inventions, inventors’ activities, international exhibitions of inventions and innovations, activities of inventors’ societies

Introduction
The Beginnings of Patenting in Tsarist Russia
Ivans Griņevičs
Activities of Rationalizers During the Interwar Period and World War II
Conclusions
Findings
SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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