HORIZONTAL SPATIAL PROXIMITY AND INNOVATION ACTIVITY IN POLISH REGIONS
Journal Title: Polish Journal of Management Studies - Year 2015, Vol 11, Issue 1
Abstract
Spatial proximity with competitive enterprises is a factor influencing the acceleration of the technological progress in industrial systems in the most developed countries, but is it like that also in Poland? The main aim of the conducted studies was the evaluation of influence the localization the competitor, in context other countries’ experiences, on the innovation activity of the selected regional industrial systems in Poland. Surveys were conducted in the years of 2007-12 on a group of 2 434 industrial companies in four diverse provinces located in different parts of the Poland - Masovian, Greater Poland, Silesian and Swietokrzyskie. The methodical side of analyses was based on the theory of probability – the probit modelling. The obtained results of the analyses indicate that both the location and the current level of the economic development of the analysed provinces do not influence the diversity of the innovation activity of the regional industrial systems. Therefore, the discussed regularities in Poland have the system nature. The challenge to creating cluster structures and facilitate their development in Poland in the horizontal (system) approach, taking into account the obtained results of studies, will be extremely difficult to achieve. The knowledge deficit and low own abilities create areas of local system technological gaps. The regional level in any case did not show significant statistical co-dependencies, what proves that this level of aggregation currently remains neutral for the implementation of the innovation activity. The obtained research results indicated a different effect of the spatial proximity of competitors in Polish regions on the innovation activity of the industrial systems compared to the most developed countries.<br/><br/>
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Arkadiusz Świadek
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