We have all grown up reading about how inventions were the sole genius of one person. Take the case of Edison's light bulb. Even he admitted he tried 10,000 varieties before getting it right. And even his invention probably came of the back of many others before who probably did research for producing glass at an industrial scale, research into various materials and elements (which could be used for filaments) and so on so forth.
It will be quite a while before we get super conductors produced reliably.Of course the prerequisite is that a true super conductor is really created, in a lab condition, is going to take quite some time.