Fifty years of patent information centres in Russia Original Research Article

The article contains a brief historical review of developing patent information centres in the structure of the State Committee on Inventions and Discoveries (Rospatent) and their participation in establishing the national patent information system. The process is divided into three stages resulting from, first, changes in demands made by the new generations of users of information products and services and, second, renewal of methods, technologies and organizational forms of information support of innovation processes.