Output details
19 - Business and Management Studies
University of South Wales
Article title
The individual inventor and the implications for innovation and entrepreneurship A view from Wales
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Industry and Higher Education
Article number
-
Volume number
23
Issue number
5
First page of article
391
ISSN of journal
09504222
Year of publication
2009
URL
-
Number of additional authors
3
Additional information
This paper investigates, through quantitative and qualitative analysis, inventive activity in the modern technological setting of Wales in the 21st century. The paper reports on the barriers, motivations and drivers to inventors becoming entrepreneurs in exploiting their ideas and taking them to market, and indicates the outcomes of a pilot phase of the Wales Inventors' Questionnaire (WIQ). From the findings, it is proposed that there is more to the inventive process than the barriers, motivations and drivers observed and that personal characteristics may inhibit or inspire the individual inventor.
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
1 - Centre for Enterprise
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
