Positive Impact on Intellectual Property Mindset through the Patent Contest/Design Patent Contest

Abstract

In order to realize that how the Patent Contest/Design Patent Contest conducted by the INPIT have an impact on young people, we used the co-occurrence network and analyzed. As a result of the analysis, we found that it was possible to overcome the difficulties when creating ideas/designs with the advice of surrounding collaborators, and to lead to a sense of accomplishment and self-confidence by evaluation from others through challenges and achieves an award of the contest.