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The article is the attempt to evaluate the business – science cooperation in the Lodz region on the basis of the research conducted among project titled “The Co-operation of Science and Business as a Factor Enhancing Innovativeness of the Lodz Region” co-financed from European Union under European Social Fund. The research findings indicate that cooperation between business and science spheres is not well developed yet. However, entrepreneurs perceive the cooperation with science as efficient and propose certain actions that should be undertaken to support this kind of ventures.
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The aim of the paper is to evaluate the economic conditions of the micro-enterprises from the Lodz region based on statistical data from the years 2008–2010. In-depth knowledge of this sector, its specificity, the general economic situation and the barriers to development may facilitate better understanding of the needs and business conditions of micro-firms. The analysis refers to the Lodz region, not the Lodz Metropolitan Area, because detailed statistics about counties are not available.
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The article presents the results of direct interviews with entrepreneurs in the Lodz region, as a second part of the research conducted among project titled “The Co-operation of Science and Business as a Factor Enhancing Innovativeness of the Lodz Region” co-financed from European Union under European Social Fund. Due to research results it is essential to take certain actions to enhance business-science cooperation system, as creating effective model of cooperation based on good practices and improve the information flows between business and science spheres. Entrepreneurs perceive local authorities as important link in business and science cooperation.
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The objective of this paper is to analyse and assess innovation activities of companies from the Lodz region. Its first part focuses on identification and ranking factors that impact innovation activities in companies based on the literature of the subject. The second part studies main areas of innovation activities of companies in the Lodz region based on the results of a questionnaire survey conducted in 2012 on a group of randomly selected 500 economic operators from the region. Innovation activities in companies in the region face numerous barriers resulting from both internal factors relating to the company and external circumstances in the surrounding environment. Lack of financial resources for the implementation of innovations is the top ranking barrier. The following are also mentioned: market barriers, barriers connected with production and production factors, employment and technical infrastructure, and finally barriers connected with access to information.
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The article presents the results of research of 99 companies operating in Łodz region. The main objective of the research was to analyze companies behavior in commercialization process. Many aspects of commercialization were discovered, for example: innovation assessment, intellectual property protection, financing, commercialization strategies. The research shows that companies in Łodz create region are not innovative and they lack ability to create and implement innovations to the market. Most of the don’t creat innovations, don’t cooperate with R&D institutions, don’t use EU financial resources that are available for innovation.
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The European Union clearly emphasises the need to convert the European knowledge into market products and services with the aid of the R&D sector through stimulating transfer of knowledge and the removal of barriers to the commercialisation of new ideas. R&D activity has a positive impact on the development of regions and it might be the example illustrating successful cooperation between science and business. Scientific units and R&D institutions are becoming increasingly more open to the business sector and more often adapt their offer to the specific needs of companies. The paper aims at presenting research and development activity carried out in Lodz region, showing its current potential and determinants of its development. Particular attention will be paid to higher education institutions whose role and importance in the research and development sphere is growing.
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A growth potential of Poland up to now has based on low labour costs and low prices of raw materials, but this advantage seems to be running out due to increasing income per capita. Hence, if the country wants to be competitive in comparison to other economies in Europe and in the world, it is indispensable to pursue a more effective innovation policy. However, the innovativeness level of particular Polish regions is diversified. Despite very high outlays on innovations (both total and per 1 enterprise), the companies from the Lodz Voivodeship reside the less innovative in the country. What is worse, their cooperation with external entities and a generous support of public funds do not result in sufficient increase of their innovativeness level. The firms from the Lodz Province are also characterized by low income arising from the sale of innovative products and a low percentage of them has introduced any innovative solutions encompassed product, process, marketing and organizational innovations.
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