The National Office for Intellectual Property established a non-profit agency, HIPAVILON Magyar Szellemi Tulajdon Ügynökség Nonprofit Kft. as a new market player of Hungary’s system of innovation-oriented institutions to promote the growth and market opportunities of Hungarian innovation.
The establishment of this agency was driven, inter alia, by the recognition arising from international and European trends that innovation is the engine of economic growth.
As innovation is hindered most by high costs and the shortage of funds, Hipavilon will help raise funds via tenders and the involvement of venture capital or business partners. It will further provide support with the identification of a given idea or innovative solution, while its research services will help determine whether the idea or innovative solution infringes any already existing rights. HIPAVILON will provide its services with special data sources offering added value and will also save its customers time and costs in the capacity of a kind of information and networking centre.
It will be the agency’s responsibility to promote the application in business and effective utilisation on the market of knowledge capital with the tools of innovation management mostly in the segment of small- and medium-sized businesses and the university and academic research sector. The services of the agency may be used in several phases from the conception of the idea all the way to the penetration of the market. As part of these services, the agency will provide training for its customers, will help price new products before their placement on the market, will help obtain protection and will also provide consulting services.
Some interesting facts. A number of Hungarian inventions are being used world-wide also at present. Just a few examples of the Hungarian inventions known everywhere around the world: computer, coloured television, matches, ballpoint pen, automatic gearbox, helicopter, automatic coffee maker, soda water, vitamin C, light bulb, film camera, floppy disk, 3D film, +D monitor, 3D pencil, contact lenses, hand-operated lawnmower, pain-free injection and vision improvement glasses. Hungarians have served the world with a great many innovations, from space research to military development (Moon radar, supersonic flight, etc.).
One of the world’s most popular puzzle games, the Rubik’s cube is also a Hungarian invention. It is this magic little cube that inspired the building that is being planned to be erected on the Danube bank in Budapest. The cultural complex to be built in the shape of a Rubik’s cube will function as a museum, an event venue and an exhibition centre; the project will be implemented between 2014 and 2017.
Hungarian inventors and scientists contributed to the advancement of the world not only in the last few centuries; in the 21st century, too, a number of innovations and intellectual products originate from Hungary. To name but some of these: Áron Losonczi, a young Hungarian architect developed a new building material, light-transmitting concrete, marketed under the name „Litracon”.
A number of medical diagnostic inventions are attached to the names of Hungarian scientists. 4D Anatomy’s four-dimensional anatomic map is a unique Hungarian development in health care which will first be available to the students of the Semmelweis University in Budapest. The unique invention that came into being as a result of eight years of development has become an overnight, world-wide success.
The latest test equipment of a Hungarian firm, which was recently presented at a medical appliances fair and attracted extraordinary attention, may bring about a major breakthrough in the monitoring of blood coagulation diseases. The patent offers the promise of not only simpler and more convenient testing but also that of a much faster and cheaper procedure compared with the technologies currently available.
(Ministry of Public Administration and Justice)
