The essence and the importance of innovation in the process of building the competitiveness of enterprises is widely described in the economic literature. But analysis of innovative activity of companies very often ...

The aim of this paper is to assess of the influence of institutional cooperation (with research institutes and universities) on the innovation performance of companies as well as determinants of such cooperation. ...

The current innovation of companies is regarded as a complex process, due to this, it is necessary for local governments to stimulate company innovation potential so purpose orientated plans have been implemented to ...

The aim of this paper is the presentation of the probit models analysis factors shaping innovation cooperation between companies and research. The practical issue is exemplified by the case of south –western Poland. The ...

This paper attempts to assess the effort to develop agri-food sector companies in the Voivodship of Lodz between 1998 and 2012. It was based on data of production dynamics and scale of investment, financed mainly through ...

Knowledge and the ability to use become the key sources of competitive advantage in the contemporary business. Two processes connected with exploiting of the knowledge are noticeable. The first one is knowledge standardization ...

The multi-faceted nature of transformations that occur in modern business encourages the evolution of concepts, methods and tools of competitiveness, as a result of which, dynamic changes are seen in the theory and practice ...

The article presents key concepts of commercialization and technology transfer. The first part of the article comments the definitions of the mentioned concepts and demonstrates their main elements. The following part ...

The article delineates some of the challenges in implementing of one of the global trends among universities - increased cooperation and collaboration to create and transfer intellectual property. Universities all over ...