Patent and Invention Activities as Driver for Developing Textile and Foot-Ware Manufacturing

Today the development of industries in Russian economy is not competitive due to the absence of innovation approaches to organization of manufacturing, without active search for new ways of customer needs satisfaction, which requires innovation elaboration and drawing up documents of protective character. The goal of the research is to identify the contribution of patenting and invention activities to the development of textile and foot-ware industry in the country. The research methods include quantitative analysis, logical analysis and methods of comparing and summarizing information obtained in national and international patent databases, academic investigations by home and overseas scientists. The authors showed approaches to understanding patent and invention activities, their features in view of sphere of textile and foot-ware manufacturing. A conclusion was drawn about the necessity to stimulate innovation invention activities on the part of state and about the importance of further search, development and introduction of goods (materials, equipment) within the frames of patent procedures, which could help protect intellectual property of enterprises (patent granting) and foster investment appeal of industry and certain enterprises.