Development of Inventors’ Activities in Latvia: Inventors’ Societies, Exhibitions, Patents and the Rationalizers’ Movement

2020
Ivans Griņevičs

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.

Keywords
izgudrojumu izstādes, izgudrotāju biedrības, Rīgas Politehniskais institūts, Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte.
DOI
10.7250/IAV.2020.003
Hyperlink
https://iav-journals.rtu.lv/article/view/IAV.2020.003

Griņevičs, I. Development of Inventors’ Activities in Latvia: Inventors’ Societies, Exhibitions, Patents and the Rationalizers’ Movement. Inženierzinātņu un augstskolu vēsture / History of Engineering Sciences and of Institutions of Higher Education, 2020, Vol. 4, pp. 30-51. ISSN 2592-8155. e-ISSN 2592-8163. Available from: doi:10.7250/IAV.2020.003

Publication language
Latvian (lv)