Encouraging Innovativeness of Small and Medium Enterprises in Serbia to Support Competitiveness Improvement in the Post-Crisis Period/ Podsticanje Inovativnosti Malih I Srednjih Preduzeća U Srbiji U Funkciji Unapređenja Konkurentnosti U Postkriznom Periodu

• Authors: Maja Ivanović-Đukić , Maja Lazić
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The global economic crisis has taken a number of consequences. In order to overcome them, many of various measures on macroeconomic and microeconomic level should be implemented in the post-crisis period. A large number of developed and developing countries as a key lever in the post-crisis period would recognize the SME sector, so that the greatest number of macroeconomic policies aims at fostering its competitiveness. Previously, a competitive advantage of SMEs was generally founded on focusing on specific markets, competing in fragmented industry or on cost leadership. Nowdays, the ability to innovate is the most important source of their competitiveness. However, since the capacities of SMEs to introduce technological innovations are generally limited, strong macroeconomic support for increasing innovativeness of SMEs is necessary. This paper will explain measures which may increase innovativeness of SMEs and the impact of SMEs innovations on their competitiveness and the competitiveness of the economy in which they operate. A special emphasis will be on the analysis of innovativeness of the SMEs in Serbia.

Globalna ekonomska kriza je ostavila veliki broj posledica. Da bi se one prevazišle, potrebno je u postkriznom periodu sprovesti različite mere na makroekonomskom i mikroekonomskom nivou. Veliki broj razvijenih zemalja i zemalja u razvoju je kao ključne poluge u postkriznom periodu prepoznao sektor malih i srednjih preduzeća (MSP), tako da je najveći broj mera makroekonomske politike usmeren na podsticanje njegove konkurentnosti. U prošlosti mala i srednja preduzeća su konkurentsku prednost uglavnom gradila fokusiranjem na specifične tržištne niše, fragmentirane grane ili vođstvom u troškovima, dok u savremenim uslovima poslovanja sve značajniji izvor njihove konkurentnosti postaje sposobnost inoviranja. Međutim, pošto su kapaciteti malih i srednjih preduzeća za uvođenje tehnoloških inovacija uglavnom ograničeni, potrebna je jaka makroekonomska podrška za povećanje inovativnosti MSP. U ovom radu će upravo biti objašnjene mere kojima se može uticati na povećanje inovativnosti MSP. Takođe će biti analiziran uticaj inovativnosti MSP na njihovu konkurentnost i konkurentnost privrede u kojoj posluju. Poseban osvrt biće na analizi inovativnosti MSP u Srbiji.

Keywords

EN

innovation; competitiveness; small and medium-sized enterprises; global economic crisis; inovacije; konkurentnost; mala i srednja preduzeća; globalna ekonomska kriza

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Economic Themes
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 51-64

Dates

published

2015-03-01

received

2013-10-18

accepted

2014-02-20

online

2015-03-13

Contributors

author

Maja Ivanović-Đukić

• University of Niš, Faculty of Economics, Serbia

author

Maja Lazić

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ethemes-2014-0004