The intention of the authors of the presented book is a continuation of the cyclical monographs in order to identify the current trends in the development of informatics and its applications, as well as trends and possible areas of practical use.

Innowacje kojarzone sa z postepem i nowoczesnoscia, a ich dyfuzja do sfery praktycznego funkcjonowania przyczynia sie w duzej mierze do rozwoju gospodarczego. Stanowia one sile napedowa rozwoju gospodarki, sa bowiem specyficznymi narzedziami przedsiebiorczosci. Pomimo, ze korzysci plynace z...

[ES] Este artículo de introducción al número especial sobre innovación de la revista Cuadernos de Gestión consta de dos apartados bien diferenciados. En el primero, se recogen algunas ideas que pueden ser útiles para los lectores que se aproximan al tema de la innovación y observan una...

The effectiveness of Science and Technology Parks (STPs) as instruments of innovation policy has generated thriving debate among academics, practitioners and policy makers. However, research mostly does not consider STPs’ heterogeneity. The present paper analyses the influence of different STP...

Despite the growing body of literature concentrating on service innovation, empirical research focusing on measuring its impact, mainly at firm-level, remains scarce. Adopting the perspective that the ability to monitor the service innovation process and to assess its impact is a pre-condition...

The nature and significance of corporate strategies are elucidated, where the patents for inventions are the main tools to meet the targets – growth, stabilization, corporate consolidation and survival. The patent and license strategies of the industries are classified according to various...

There are many processes on Internet, on web servers, in ERP and company running an e-commerce system which can be influenced by disturbances. In order to minimize their impact it is necessary to identify and collect all disturbances, to determine their evaluation metric and to propose necessary...

University’s everyday life is today transformed in an encompassing domain where diferente types of actors are connected and interrelated. Nevertheless, academic science often feels threatened by the new emerging paradigm characterized by knowledge transfer and the economic exploitation of...

Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take explicitly or implicitly agency theory as a theoretical basis. The emerging psychological economics opens a new perspective. As scholarly research is a mainly curiosity driven...