Proceedings of the 15th International Academic Conference, Rome

INSTRUMENTS SUPPORTING INNOVATIVENESS OF POLISH ENTERPRISES

PIOTR KURAŚ, MAŁGORZATA KURAŚ

Abstract:

Competitive advantage of the enterprise may come from different sources. Undoubtedly, the important factors determining it must include the information potential of the enterprise. The company, providing an innovative, distinctive product, uses, so called, bonus for newness. This allows to achieve better competitive position and higher revenue, at least by the time of the achievement of skills and experience enabling the provision of a similar product by competitors. Polish government administration is interested in an increase of innovative potential of Polish enterprises. A higher innovative potential should amount to higher competitiveness of the whole Polish economy. The major part of the paper includes the characteristics of the instruments which Polish government administration have prepared to support innovativeness of Polish enterprises. They have been characterized in the three major groups. The first one includes direct instruments which must be understood as the support given directly to entrepreneurs, another one includes the institutions supporting entrepreneurs and the last one refers to the instruments supporting business environment institutions.

Keywords: innovativeness, competitiveness, strategy, enterprise, SME

DOI: 10.20472/IAC.2015.015.107

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