Research Article

Qualification Enhancement in Intellectual Property for the Teaching Staff of Institutions of Higher Education

Table 6

Attitudes to the problem of IP rights infringements.

IndicatorsIHE teaching staff
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Persons infringing IP rights mostly lack understanding of their infringements of any rights and particularly of the meaning of plagiarism, “piracy,” etc.5140
The teaching staff have a neutral or tolerant attitude towards nonobservance of IP rights.4136
There is almost no use of technical tools in everyday educational practice to evaluate originality of texts, and therefore, there is a risk of punishment for plagiarism is minimal.4539
Infringements of IP rights arise from overload, race against time, need to complete a significant number of tasks in a short time.5231
The teaching staff mostly do not see themselves as authors of works to be protected as IP assets.4832

Column “1” is the sum of “I agree” and “I rather agree”; column “2” is the sum of “I disagree” and “I rather disagree”; the sum of “1” and “2” can be less than 100% because the “hard to say” answers are not presented.