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Wiedza i kooperacja w procesie zarządzania działalnością B + R
Knowledge and cooperation in the process of R&D management

Author(s): Katarzyna Szopik-Depczyńska
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: R&D; knowledge; cooperation

Summary/Abstract: The article shows a connection between knowledge and R&D activity in the enterprises. It is a must for all companies, which are willing to survive on the competitive market to take into consideration a knowledge management. It is especially R&D activity, which is based on creating and managing of new knowledge. Linking R&D activities to the knowledge is no doubt. For it is associated primarily with the creation, acquisition and processing of new knowledge. Research and development therefore requires companies to not only maintain a highly qualified staff, but also entering into relations with other parties, which are willing to share their knowledge or technology. The article raises the issue of the level of training of employees in companies incurring expenditure on R&D. The main problem of the research is therefore to investigate the level of training of employees, and more specifically the level of employees' qualifications fit the present and future needs of the organization. The main purpose is to determine the impact of level of training of the employees on innovative activity. The survey was conducted in 2011 on a group of 729 industrial enterprises of the West Pomeranian voivodeship, of which 255 enterprises have declared incurring expenditure on R&D. Methodical analysis was based on the theory of probability.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 38/1
  • Page Range: 217-227
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish