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 …

This paper uses obstacles to innovation to investigate the heterogeneity of Polish innovating firms. Based on the … distinguishes between two groups of innovating firms: those which introduced innovation in both periods covered by both CIS (called … persistent innovators) and those which introduced innovation either in CIS4 or CIS5 (occasional innovators). Two steps analysis …

This paper investigates the differences in innovation behaviour, i.e. differences in innovation sources and innovation … effects, among manufacturing firms in three NMS: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. It is based on a survey of firms … into account: innovation inputs in enterprises, cooperation among firms in R&D activities, the benefits of cooperation with …

the main existing instruments of financial support for innovation in Turkey and Poland, and secondly to assess their … monitoring and evaluation of R&D and innovation policies in Turkey. In Poland, the science, technology and innovation (STI … support from local government. The recommendation for Poland is to redesign the innovation support schemes for firms so as to …

firms in question and how they are used for knowledge acquisition, and barriers to innovation. We find that overall Poland …&D) intensively. We begin by sketching the situation in Poland's small and medium-sized business sector, then proceed to outline the … National Innovation System, with particular attention devoted to the question of finance and policy initiatives. We then turn …

services industry. To this end we analyze the innovation strategies in several service sectors in Poland in 2008 and examine … their relationship to productivity. Our results show that service firms differ considerably in their innovation strategies …

(Woodward et al., 2012), this working paper presents an analysis of two Sectoral Innovation Systems (Malerba, 2002) in the … above average. The software industry is a young and dynamically growing one everywhere, and Poland is no exception …. Companies in the industry tend to be young and very small. In Poland, they are very focused on the domestic market and play the …

firms in question and how they are used for knowledge acquisition, and barriers to innovation. We find that overall Poland …&D) intensively. We begin by sketching the situation in Poland?s small and medium-sized business sector, then proceed to outline the … National Innovation System, with particular attention devoted to the question of finance and policy initiatives. We then turn …

This study surveys the current state of affairs in Poland with regard to the development of knowledge …&D) intensively. We place KIE in Poland in the larger institutional context, outlining the key features of the country’s National … Innovation System, and then focus on KIE itself. Our findings are perhaps more optimistic than many previous studies of knowledge …