Aktywność innowacyjna polskiej gospodarki w okresie transformacji systemowej

Abstract

The deep systemic transformation and the Poland's integration with the European Union create new opportunities and impulses for the development of innovation propensity in the economy. The opportunities are connected with gaining a wide access to the achievements of European science and technology. Simultaneously, barriers to the absorption of world technical achievements can appear, which result from structural deformations of the Polish economy and insufficient absorption of innovations by companies. The Polish companies compete in the open European market with the Western companies, which are characterised by a high level of propensity to innovate. The paper considers the innovation activity of the Polish economy and, more specifically, the following problems: a) characteristics of the innovation potential of the Polish economy, b) assessment of the innovative activity of the economy, c) presentation of the Polish innovation system. The paper also evaluates the conditions for stimulating the innovation activity of the Polish economy. It is a difficult task to raise this activity for many reasons, which include: firstly, low financial outlays on research and development in Poland; secondly, low degree of commercialisation of innovations; thirdly, absence of efficient mechanism releasing the propensity to innovate in the economy.