Abstract
European innovation scoreboard is used to monitor and compare the innovation performance of European countries, according to which was the Slovak Republic, together with two other V4 countries, i.e. Hungary and Poland, at the time of last available data from this area, classified into the last, fourth group of countries named “catching-up countries”. These countries were characterized by the lack of innovation activity, which was well below the EU 27 average. From the V4 countries, Czech Republic achieved the best results, belongs to “moderate innovators” and is the most close to the European average. At a present time all four countries are included in a group of moderate innovators. The innovation performance of whole country is particularly influenced by innovation activities of enterprises operating in this country. For this reason, the article deals with the detailed analysis of innovative activity of enterprises by their size and sector of their operation in Czech and Slovak Republic, and also deals with the cooperation of enterprises in these activities in terms of the type of partner and the countries of their interaction.
Highlights
The term “innovation” is Latin origin and means the introduction of new or significantly improved product or service on the market, respectively introduction of new or significantly improved process within the company (Štatistický úrad SR, 2006)
Innovation requires more than only come with a new idea, but it is the process of application of the idea in practice
The least numerous group of enterprises was group of large enterprises, of which only 58.10% cooperated with other enterprises at the national level, 50.76% cooperated with other European enterprises and 16.20% of enterprises preferred cooperation in developing and implementing innovation with enterprises that operate in other countries of the World
Summary
The term “innovation” is Latin origin (innovatio, innovare) and means the introduction of new or significantly improved product or service on the market, respectively introduction of new or significantly improved process within the company (Štatistický úrad SR, 2006). The following parts of article deal with more detailed analysis of innovation activity of enterprises in two neighboring countries It is the analysis of innovation activity of enterprises according to their size, to the type of introduced innovation, according to the sector of their operation, organization which has developed a new product or process. In the service sector has decided to improve their services or to improve the level of services supplying about half of the number of industrial enterprises (Figure 2), but their share on the total number of enterprises providing services was almost 22% These enterprises preferred process innovation, not product innovation. From the total of 1,526 construction enterprises, only 12.39% of enterprises innovated their production mainly by introducing new or significantly improved processes. The least numerous were large enterprises, of which over half enterprises decided to introduce the innovation in the year 2006
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