Association of Innovators DIATUS Split announced that from 1988. is recorded registration of 1150 new innovators. Through the contests for the best innovation of Dalmatia so far they signed up about 1200 innovations. A lot of them are commercialized and many are displayed on various domestic and international exhibitions up to date, where they picked up many awards.
Innovations DIATUS are protected in more than 90 countries. According the words of Ante Zekić, the President of DIATUS, from 9 innovations reported on International exhibition ARCA, even 6 of them received award. Awarded are:
- Marina Crnjac from the company Končar from Dicmo, the winner of gold medal for the Green home power plant,
- Mirko and Ante Vuković from the company Oblog galera from Vrgorac with a silver medal for Automatic dispensers with cooling unit and video monitor Perpetuum Cooler,
- Stipe Latković whose innovation Measuring of height difference of the lower extremities won a silver medal,
- Marinka Biškić from the company Luxor Solin winner of the bronze medal for the A chocolate spread with olive oil,
- Boris Vukić won the bronze medal for the innovation Electronic flash BU 230V and
- Duje Duplančić and Marino Jurašin for their innovation Y glasses won bronze medal
County Prefect of Split-Dalmatia county Zlatko Ževrnja pointed out that the counties for many years financed Society for Technical Culture, within which operates DIATUS, pointing out that innovators have to be even more more represented in the public. DIATUS provides their members advices about how to get financial resources and protect their innovation before it is placed on the market.
