Innovativeness of Service Sector Enterprises – Innovation Objectives and Types
Innovativeness of Service Sector Enterprises – Innovation Objectives and Types

Summary/Abstract: In her article, the author undertook important problems of innovations in the service sector. She used the definition and classification of innovations in services worked out by experts from the OECD, which are described in the Oslo Manual. The article is of the diagnostic and postulate nature. Its aim is to identify the objectives and types of innovations of the service sector enterprises vis-à-vis industry sector enterprises in Poland. Implementation of the set out aim was possible owing to the literature studies comprising the essence and specific features of innovations in the service sector as well as an analysis of figures originating from the cyclical surveys carried out by the CSO on innovative activities of enterprises from individual sectors of the economy, carried out with the use of the OECD methodology. The object of analysis is the objectives and types of innovations introduced by enterprises of the service sector and those of the industry sector. The comparative analysis in this respect covered the years 2006-2012. In the final part of the article, the author evaluated the innovative activities of enterprises of the service sector as well as presented the conclusions that may be of use for the institutions supporting the development of innovative activities in Poland. She also proposed further directions of research of the issues of innovations in the service sector.

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