Author(s): Rafina Rafkatovna Zakieva, Vladimir Vladimirovich Kolmakov, Albert Valentinovich Pavlyuk, Viktoriya Viktorovna Ling, Dariya Vladimirovna Medovnikova, Raisa Husainovna Azieva
Innovation activity is currently the most important factor in boosting of competitiveness through the creation of an innovative environment. In turn, innovations can be introduced only if intellectual property rights are protected. The purpose of this study is to tackle innovation as an object of intellectual property law from the point of view of entrepreneurship education. To reach the objectives of this study, a course was offered to study various types of innovation and intellectual property rights. The research method was a teacher survey involving 30 teachers of the Elabuga Institute, the Faculty of Economics and Management and the Faculty of Law. The survey revealed that 65% of teachers were interested in this course, namely in the topics, such as Legal Protection for Inventions, Utility Models and Industrial Designs (general provisions) and Rights to Information Resources, Official and Commercial Secrets. Among the problems associated with the course implementation, they noted additional load (75%), lack of funding (65%) and insufficient knowledge of intellectual property rights in the field of innovation (59%).
The limitation of the study is created by a small sample size. We therefore recommend brining the study to the federal level.