Źródła informacji rynkowych przy kształtowaniu nowych produktów
Sources of Market Information in Shaping New Products

Summary/Abstract: An aim of the study is to present the degree of the use of various sources of market information in shaping new products by domestic enterprises of mediumhigh and high technology as well as ties between the type of the source and new products’ effects. The survey was carried out among randomly selected enterprises from the population of our interest. For the purpose of data analysis there were used simple tabulation and the Mann-Whitney U test. The survey findings show that a significant part of the firms surveyed was using purchasers and competitors as the sources of market information, whereas significantly less other entities. The comparison of successful and unsuccessful new products – in terms of various aspects of using purchasers, competitors and other entities as the sources of market information – showed that all those actions had positive impact of the new product’s success except for the use of websites of competitors, their materials and promotional activities. Therefore, it is proper to recommend the enterprises in question to use purchasers, competitors and other market entities as the sources of information. The article is of the research nature.

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