Workers have different abilities in research, development and innovation (R&D&I) activities. Firms have different … “prospects for innovation”. Innovation is facilitated by matching innovators, i.e. workers that are specialized in R&D&I to firms … with good prospects for innovation. Aggregate productivity growth requires that firms with the best prospects for …

to provide theoretical and empirical perspectives on innovation which give a greater role to the demand-side aspect of … innovation. The main question is how can policy make enterprises more willing to innovate? This task is fulfilled by identifying … what we consider the central or most salient aspect of a demand-side innovation- driven economy, which is the small and …

Innovation is considered to be an important determinant of performance at the firm, industry and country level. This … domestic innovation is of little importance for most countries. Such countries can benefit from innovation conducted elsewhere … however, if knowledge and technology is diffused across borders. In this paper we survey existing literature on innovation and …

development of these countries. This paper aims to show the differences in innovation patterns among manufacturing firms operating … into account innovation inputs, cooperation among firms in R&D activities, the benefits of cooperation with business … partners, innovation outputs and international competitiveness. The sample consisted of 358 firms operating in both low and …

This paper investigates the differences in innovation behaviour, i.e. differences in innovation sources and innovation … into account: innovation inputs in enterprises, cooperation among firms in R&D activities, the benefits of cooperation with … business partners and innovation effects (innovation outputs and international competitiveness of firms' products and …

This paper investigates the barriers to innovation perceived by Polish manufacturing firms. It refers to the … heterogeneity of innovation active firms. We introduce a taxonomy of innovative firms based on the frequency with which they … introduce commercialised innovations using data from both CIS4 (for 2002-2004) and CIS5 (2004-2006). Two groups of innovation …

The authors use the insights from strategy research and innovation studies to address two principal questions regarding … Innovation Survey for Polish service firms. They propose a set of indicators reflecting four principal fields of technology …