Innovation activities of enterprises in Poland
Journal Title: Zeszyty Naukowe Małopolskiej Wyższej Szkoły Ekonomicznej w Tarnowie - Year 2015, Vol 26, Issue 1
Abstract
Nowadays, innovation is an important factor for socio-economic development. In the era of globalization, increased customer expectations as well as increasing competition of companies are forced to take continuous innovation activities. Such firms would like to remain on the market and they are aimed at the development. The research conducted both at the enterprise and national or international level, shows a significant impact of innovation activities undertaken the condition of individual operators, as well as the entire economies. Innovative activities, implemented by companies, bring them a number of benefits. That is, among others, introduction of new products and services to the market, the use of new production technology or in the long term, costs reduction, market extension, keeping up with ever more exorbitant consumers requirements. Hence, it is important that in each country there are adequate mechanisms encouraging businesses to increase funds on research and development activities. Therefore, as the purpose of the article, the author has adopted an attempt to discern the level of innovative activity undertaken by Polish companies. In the first part of the article, on the basis of literature, the theoretical foundations of innovation have been presented, showing the diversity of the term definitions as well as indicating the types of innovation. In the second part of the article the author used the secondary data from the Central Statistical Office, Eurostat and data contained in the reports on the issues of innovation in order to present the level of innovative activities undertaken by Polish companies.
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Ewa Mazur-Wierzbicka
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