## 5 Results  
The results include the answers obtained during interviews and the opinions and judgements which were expressed during discussions. The results are presented according to the order of questions (Q\({}_{n}\)) in the questionary. **Q1. **_Does knowledge play a significant role in the success of your company?_  
This question is introductory and opens the interview, it outlines the further conversation and, from psychological point of view, helps to create the positive atmosphere. All the experts (100%) recognize the role of knowledge for the successful functioning of the companies surveyed, all of them answered: \"yes, the knowledge plays a significant role\" to the first question, this positive reaction helps to build the efficient attitude toward the following list of questions to ask. During the discussion, one of the top-managers of finance and credit institutions stated that he cannot imagine a manager of the banking sector or another industry, who would answer differently, because we live within the context of the information society since the middle of the last century, and banking is based on the analysis of knowledge and making decisions. Further questions did not provoke the same unanimity and serve as the base for the research. **Q2. **_Has your company created and registered any intellectual property (IP) right--patents, licenses, registered software, etc. ?_  
The experts paid attention to the awareness of intellectual property (IP). Meanwhile, they have doubts about the numbers, especially in finance, managers presented two polar situations--a huge banking and credit institution representative is certain that the original software is registered in the form of intellectual property right (license), but the other five persons from the banking sector said that the internal software is the intellectual product and, certainly, the intangible asset, but is not fixed under IP protection form (patents, licenses, etc. ), exactly because of their internal use and the unwillingness of the institutions to disclose their instruments and outcome, even due to its constant change and improvement (see Table 4). The chemistry (100%) and IT companies (88.9%) represented a similar mindset--they have several or many IP rights that are fixed according to the rules. In the chemistry industry, 5 of 6 managers chose \"many\" IP rights, and one person answered \"about a dozen\"; in the IT sector, the distribution is more balanced between variants (the responses \"many\" and \"about a dozen\" were given by 33%, \"several\" and \"no one\" was chosen by 22%). Special attention can be paid to the responses received from educational institutions that have no intellectual property created and registered, according to 83.3% of respondents. The administrative staff representatives had taken part in the accreditation procedures, they are aware of many formal indicators of their universities, but only the person responsible for the expertise of Polytechnic University said that she has clear data of many IP rights registered by the institution (this answer is true). Other reasons explain the response \"many\" given by the eminent professor and the head of the department at the Electrotechnical University (LETI)--she has herself authorship of several patents, and she concluded about IP rights of other professors and she was absolutely right because the LETI University has thousands of patents since the Soviet period. Another response from the Electrotechnical University, which also has recently passed the accreditation procedure, tells of \"several\" registered IP rights and this answer is, in fact, partly correct because during the last period of accreditation, LETI reported four IP rights [82].