Kreacja wiedzy technicznej a konkurencyjność gospodarek
Technological Knowledge Creation and Competitiveness of Economies

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyse the dependence between the innovation activity, notably the ability to create new technological knowledge, and the competitiveness of economies. The author disusses first the main factors that determine the competitiveness of economies, with special consideration of innovation capacity, and various measures applied in this respect. The empirical analysis focuses on correlation between 25 indexes reflecting various aspects of the potential to create new technological knowledge and 2 indexes measuring the competiveness of the economies (GDP per capita and labour productivity). The analysis was carried out on a data sample covering 26 European countries (for some indexes, data were available for 22 or 23 countries) in the period 2003–2010. According to the results, the following factors are most important in determining the innovation ability of individual countries, thereby contributing to the competiveness of their economies: total expenditure on research and development (R&D), employment in R&D activity and intellectual property protection (represented by the relative number of patent applications).

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