According to the General Innovation Index, the not large European countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland and Sweden) are among the leaders of innovativeness of the national economy. For the Europe scale, by number of population, area, representation in...

The study outlines the evolutionary character of the process of emerging and confirming the logistic approach in the firm management of the countries with developed market economies. It states the contiguous stages of its application in the context of the evolution of the logistic in the second...

The main aim of the study is to discuss the importance of the enterprise operational system for developing and sustaining business competitive advantages. The influence of the operational system specificity and of the decisions related to its designing and functioning on the business outcomes...

After the accession of Bulgaria in EU, the Bulgarian market becomes part of the common European market. The internationalization of the enterprises, the development of competitive productions, the strategic orientation towards international markets, have decisive role for the future development...

This paper provides some basic information about expertise and research projects at the Finnish Forest Research Institute (Metla), collected, firstly, with the help of information published at the institute’s website by participating researchers, and, secondly, using research reports,...

In the paper current issues relating to the application of ICT as organizational – managerial innovations in management practices of small businesses in the country are considered. Based on the analysis, the use of ICT for different purposes during the period 2007-2010 is reveals.

In Bulgaria exist regional disproportions related to the level of innovation activeness, and among the most unfavorable positions is the South East Planning Region (SEPR). On the other side, the innovative active small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are not open enough and do not...

This paper presents the results of a research project undertaken at the Institute for World Economics that focused on changes and institutional innovations in advanced economies’ National Innovation Systems. These changes were provoked either by emerging new technologies or by changes in the...

The study proves the direct connection between the processes of internationalization of R&D activity and the organizational conceptions for their carrying out. Revealed are the scales and outlined are the main tendencies of the processes of internationalization of this specific firm activity....

The tendencies to internationalization and globalization of the business are based on the growing interrelation of the business units. These multidimensional processes have many faces. One of them is establishing of the new forms of corporate cooperation, based on the modern communication...