Technical Product Innovation in Building Material Industry in the Czech Republic

The progress of transformation of the worldwide economic system entails the need for evaluation of innovation performance of the EU Member States. Progress achieved in research, development and innovation has been monitored on a regular basis since 1993. The present article focuses on survey of innovations and their results in the form of the Summary Innovation Index for EU countries. Further focus in on innovations in the building material industry in the Czech Republic from the viewpoint of technical product innovation with regard to revenues from the innovated products and cooperation in the process of innovation. A building material provider has been selected to introduce a particular innovation process from the initial idea to the product marketing. The article further describes the options of intellectual property right protection by patent or industrial or utility model in the Czech Republic.