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Efektywność współpracy przedsiębiorstw w zakresie działalności innowacyjnej
Effectiveness of collaboration of enterprises in the range of innovation activity

Author(s): Anna Matras-Bolibok
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: innovation process; innovation activity; enterprises collaboration

Summary/Abstract: Effective innovation activity, aiming at commercially successful introduction of new or significantly improved products or services to the market, is nowadays an inevitable condition for achieving market success by enterprises. The complexity of the innovation process causes that ensuring its effective course on every stage requires undertaking collaboration by enterprises with numerous entities in order to gain access to a wide range of resources, especially sophisticated knowledge. The paper shows the role of the inter-organizational collaboration on innovation activity based on the conducted analysis of the influence of collaboration on the effectiveness of innovation activity for Polish industrial enterprises. The results of the analysis indicate the positive correlation between the number of the enterprises undertaking collaboration on innovation activity and its effectiveness, measured by the market value of the new and improved products.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 262
  • Page Range: 232-240
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish