Selected aspects of innovativeness in Polish enterprises

The article aims to fulfill the following two objectives: determine and critically assess the percentage of innovative enterprises within the total number of both Polish industrial enterprises and Polish service enterprises; verify the research hypothesis that the universality of innovation implementation is relatively low, that innovation is diversified in industrial and service enterprises, and that innovation depends on the size of the enterprise and the type of innovation. The article was prepared using the following research methods: cognitive and critical analysis of the literature on the subject, statistical and comparative analysis of empirical secondary material from the Polish Central Statistical Office (GUS), and the projection method. The innovativeness of enterprises was analyzed in terms of enterprise size and type of innovation. Innovation was treated as an indirect measure of the level of managerial activity in shaping innovation policy. In order to verify the hypothesis, the empirical secondary material of the Polish Central Statistical Office was used to analyze the innovative activity of enterprises between 2012 and 2014 and between 2015 and 2017. The results of the analysis confirmed the research hypothesis.

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Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa Nr 461252 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2020).