Abstract:

Innovation can represent for the modern society the main way to achieve economic growth and to solve certain local and global issues related to the threat to population’s health, food security or environmental concerns. European strategies in the field of Research, Development and Innovation aim at increasing the role and significance of patenting and at enhancing the protection and implementation of scientific breakthroughs. Although Europe has made progress in this area, the European office is still behind those from China, USA. Japan or the Republic of Korea. European countries, through Germany and France, are among the world's top holders of patents. Romania, although it has nationally recorded a number of progresses in the field of patent registration, registers low international shares. in particular, due to the prohibitive costs of patents registration. Romanian universities occupy modest positions in the field of patenting, registering an average of 1.4 patents / year. Supporting and encouraging national innovation and filing patent applications should be supported at governmental level, by reducing formalities, the duration of acquiring the patent and the patenting costs.