FAKTORY ÚSPEŠNOSTI INOVAČNÝCH AKTIVÍT FIRIEM PÔSOBIACICH NA SLOVENSKU

• Authors: Knošková Ľubica , Vojtech Kollár

Title variants

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Success factors of innovation activities in firms active in Slovakia

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The paper discusses factors influencing firms’ ability to manage innovation. Authors investigate functional relationship between new product introductions and organizational learning, innovation processes, innovation strategies and external and internal innovation sources. After surveying 102 firms knowledge on success factors that drive new product development and commercialization were identified. The findings demonstrate that significant differences exist between innovators and non-innovators in use of innovation processes, specific external knowledge sources, property rights protection, and product innovation focus. The study shows the need of different approach to manage radical and incremental innovations and leads to developing a model to implement radical innovation strategy and subsequent processes inside a firm.

Keywords

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PRODUCT INNOVATION; INNOVATION PROCESS; INNOVATION STRATEGY; SUCCESS FACTORS; SLOVAKIA; FIRM

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 59
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 1067 – 1079

Contributors

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Knošková Ľubica

• Ekonomická univerzita v Bratislave, Obchodná fakulta, Katedra tovaroznalectva a kvality tovaru, Dolnozemská cesta 1, 852 35 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

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Vojtech Kollár