Marlena Grabowska

Selected Directions in Analysis of Innovative Activities in Enterprises

The primary focus of this study is on theoretical and empirical analysis of selected directions of innovative activities carried out in enterprises. The significance of these problems is connected with the role performed by innovations in improving and maintaining competitiveness in enterprises. The investigations presented in the study focused on the importance and manifestations of innovativeness of enterprises as well as highlighting contemporary characteristics of innovations. The empirical part of the study analyzed innovative activity of enterprises based on such criteria as level of outlays on innovations incurred by the enterprise, equipping the enterprise in means of production processes automation as well as the level of technology transfer and using the technology. The empirical examinations were carried out based on the data contained in the Statistical Yearbooks published by the Central Statistical Office for the years 2008-2012.