Impact of Subjective Well-Being on Success of Technological Knowledge Creation among Independent Inventors in Developing Countries: A First Look at Sri Lanka

Wickramasinghe, C. N.; Ahmad, Nobaya; Rashid, Sharifah Norazizan Syed Abd.; Emby, Zahid

doi:10.1007/s13132-011-0036-9

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“…The number of resident patent applications in Sri Lanka is not very high; however, there is a steady increase of patent applications in recent years. Further, the number of independent inventors in Sri Lanka has drastically increased since the last decade (Wickramasinghe et al ., ).…”

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Influence of Demographic and Technical Profile on Success of Independent Inventors in Sri Lanka

Wickramasinghe

Ahmad

2012

World Intellectual Property

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The remarkable growth of patent applications in Asia has been the central focus of the recent studies on technological knowledge creation. However, all the Asian countries have not shown similar growth and hence, have not gained similar academic attention. Especially, the lower and middle‐income countries in South Asia are stagnating in technological knowledge creation. Sri Lanka is one such country that has high proportion of independent inventors in their innovation system. Owing to small number of inventors, there is hardly any attention given to conduct empirical studies on inventors in these countries. Therefore, inherent characteristics of inventors and innovation systems in these countries are underexplored in published academic literature. This pioneering study attempted to explore the inherent characteristics of the independent inventors in Sri Lanka as the representatives of inventors in middle‐income South Asian developing countries. The findings of the study suggest that most of the sociodemographic and technical characteristics of Sri Lankan inventors are similar to the independent inventors in industrial countries. It also indicates that demographic factors such as age, income, job mobility, marital status and technical factors such as engagement in inventions, prototype development and commercialization method have significant influence on the overall innovation success of independent inventors in Sri Lanka.

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Influence of Demographic and Technical Profile on Success of Independent Inventors in Sri Lanka

Wickramasinghe

Ahmad

2012

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“…It has created considerable doubt of keep using objective innovation process outcomes as the only measurements of success of independent inventors (Wickramasinghe, Ahmad, Rashid, & Emby, 2011). These measures were unable to explain why independent inventors are involving in inventive activities while they are facing failures.…”

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Why Independent Inventors Never Quit? In Search of Contribution of Inventive Outcomes on Subjective Success of Independent Inventors

2014

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Impact of Subjective Well-Being on Success of Technological Knowledge Creation among Independent Inventors in Developing Countries: A First Look at Sri Lanka

Abstract: Subjective well-being, Knowledge economy, Subjective success, Independent inventors, Positive psychology, Sri Lanka,

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Influence of Demographic and Technical Profile on Success of Independent Inventors in Sri Lanka

Influence of Demographic and Technical Profile on Success of Independent Inventors in Sri Lanka

Why Independent Inventors Never Quit? In Search of Contribution of Inventive Outcomes on Subjective Success of Independent Inventors

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