≣ MENU

Search For:  
Czech |  English

Journal of Competitiveness

Cooperation in Creating Innovation in Polish Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Light of Empirical Studies

Zastempowski Maciej, Przybylska Natalia

Keywords:
innovation, cooperation, open innovation, SMEs, interorganizational relations

Abstract:
Nowadays, sources of competitive advantage and economic development are sought in the sphere of innovation. They are at the centre of interest of representatives of the world of politics, science, and business. Moreover, they have been incorporated into governmental and international strategic development programmes. This article attempts to characterize and evaluate cooperation in creating innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises in Poland. Empirical research, a fragment of which is presented in this article, was conducted at the turn of March and April 2015 on a representative sample of Polish small and medium-sized enterprises. The subject of the analysis was business innovation expressed through the indicators of innovation and frequency of cooperation with different entities from the business environment to create new solutions, as well as forms of business innovation. The evaluation of the existing dependence was performed on the basis of the estimation results of the logit model. The objective of this study was to identify key factors related to cooperation and their impact on the innovativeness of Polish companies, using the tools of econometric analysis. The article presents a contemporary approach to managing innovative activity – open innovation, which is both widely reported and reflected in the results of research conducted. The logit model that was developed also indicates that companies that are open to cooperation with customers and academic institutions of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and are members of clusters are more likely to implement innovations of a radical nature.

Fulltext download:

Cooperation in Creating Innovation in Polish Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Light of Empirical Studies [PDF file] [Filesize: 724.16 KB]

10.7441/joc.2016.02.04


Zastempowski M., Przybylska N. (2016). Cooperation in Creating Innovation in Polish Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Light of Empirical Studies. Journal of Competitiveness, 8 (2), 42-58 https://doi.org/10.7441/joc.2016.02.04

Journal of Competitiveness

  

Copyright © 2009-2023 Tomas Bata University in Zlin.
Search powered by Google™

ISSN 1804-171X (Print); eISSN 1804-1728 (On-line)


Creative Commons License
The journal offers access to the contents in the open access system on the principles license Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0).