Implementation Of Innovative Products Research Articles

Eco-innovations in the functioning of companies

The development of entrepreneurships in the 21st century cannot occur without taking care of the natural environment. The article presents issues related to eco-innovation.Despite the opportunities offered by eco-innovations, implementation of such initiatives remains to lead to various difficulties. They vary across countries and sectors. The insufficient number of enterprises in Poland and other European countries implement adequate level of eco-innovations. The main aim of this paper is to indicate the causes of this status and activities aimed to develop eco-innovativeness. The benefits and risks connected with implementation of innovative products and technologies were also discussed.Furthermore, the advantages of and barriers to their implementation into companies were analysed. The entrepreneurs from the least eco-innovative countries emphasize serious barriers, including uncertain demand from the market, uncertain return on investment or too long a payback period for eco-innovation, lack of funds within the enterprise, insufficient access to existing subsidies and fiscal incentive. They are especially afraid of the financial risks, which raises uncertainty and leads to refraining from innovative initiatives. The possibilities were indicated for the entrepreneurs who face problems with the implementation of innovative solutions. Particular attention was paid to the European Union activities for the development of eco-innovations. Numerous programs supporting their implementation were indicated. The article also presents examples of eco-innovation in water and sewage enterprises. It was emphasized that planning of eco-innovative solutions should be based on comprehensive information about actual benefits and possibility of threats to the environment which can be caused by implementation of eco-innovations. The study presents the example of threats resulting from different methods of sewage sludge management.

New ICTs for Knowledge Management in Organizations

Purpose The purpose of this special issue is to point out the possibilities of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) for knowledge management (KM) in organizations, offering different perspectives on and approaches for the role of new ICTs for KM, as well as measuring the impact and diffusion of new ICTs for KM within organizations. Design/methodology/approach The selection of the papers included in this special issue is largely based on the work of the conference “7th European Conference on Intellectual Capital - ECIC” (April 2015, Cartagena, Spain), where the special issue editors organized a track on “New ICTs for Knowledge Management in Organizations”. The conference gathered leading scholars in the fields of intellectual capital and KM, dealing with the acquisition, creation and sharing of collective intelligence and how to utilize increased academic knowledge and networking in promoting economic and organizational innovations and changes. Findings The collection of papers covered in this special issue identifies challenging problems on the role of new ICTs for KM and their role in the design and implementation of innovative products, services or processes in organizations. Research limitations/implications The special issue tries to offer some new relevant advances for the academic and practice communities in the growing body of research analyzing new ICTs for KM. However, the theoretical and empirical advances showed represent only a partial view, which corresponds to the impact of new ICTs for KM at the organizational level of analysis. Practical implications The nature of new ICTs, such as social networking tools, wikis, internal blogging and the way they are used, suggest that nowadays they may differ from traditional organizational systems in two critical ways: the voluntary (typically not mandatory) use and their lack of activity or process orientation. Originality/value The special issue explores the phenomena by integrating different perspectives and approaches, including qualitative and quantitative empirical. This integration overcomes some limitations about the understanding of the issues under investigation.

Research and analysis of the commercialization process of ideas and results of the innovative activities in Ukraine: legal and economic aspects

It is investigated a legal aspect of commercialization in the light of the basic laws of Ukraine and agreements, which entered Ukraine to integrate into the global economic system: the Paris Convention, Madrid Agreement, Agreement «On Patent Cooperation» agreement «On Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights» Laws of Ukraine «On innovative activity», «On scientific and scientific-technical information», «On Protection of Rights to Industrial Designs», «On protection of inventions and industrial models» and others. The article states that the shortcomings of the Ukrainian legislation limited time duration of patent protection and features protection of intellectual property. The aim of research of the legal framework in terms of protection of intellectual property is the formation of a legal corridor for the implementation of the commercialization of ideas and technology transfer, as the author of the idea for the concept of the protection of his rights to object ownership is crucial for its implementation marketing.The economic aspect describes the contemporary realities of patent effectiveness of Ukraine, as the defining characteristics of commercialization and its primary stage. Along with the display of patent activity, the article noted the trend of innovative activity of enterprises, which states that the number of innovative active enterprises for the period from 2012 to 2014 is increased, but the implementation of innovative products and innovative costs are decreased. Analysis of the statistical data allows determining basically positive trend that character will drop down if negative changes in the national economy will continue.

ІННОВАЦІЙНО-ІНВЕСТИЦІЙНІ ПІДХОДИ ДО ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ КОНКУРЕНТОСПРОМОЖНОСТІ УКРАЇНСЬКИХ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ НА ГЛОБАЛЬНИХ КОНКУРЕНТНИХ РИНКАХ

The rapid development of competitive global markets oblige the Ukrainian company to provide fast adaptation to changes in the external environment, to gain and hold a certain market share, and strive to expand. That is why the issue of achieving and maintaining the competitiveness of Ukrainian businesses in global competitive markets. While the innovation and investment process that facilitates the introduction of advanced science and technology and stimulates the attraction of temporarily free funds for the purpose of financing the development of science. Innovative investment process is a process of development, creation and implementation of innovative product by attracting investment resources. He plays in ensuring the competitiveness of products, and, consequently, the competitiveness of Ukrainian businesses in global markets, because it aims at reducing the release of product to market and costs of production and promotion of products and increase its quality.

Стан та проблеми інноваційного розвитку промислових підприємств України

Для реалізації інтеграції до ЄС зростання інноваційної діяльності – важлива запорука економічного розвитку країни. Проте відсутність дієвих стимулів інноваційної діяльності та державної підтримки високотехнологічних підприємств свідчить про те, що належних умов та середовища для інноваційного підприємництва в Україні так і не створено.
 Мета дослідження – висвітлення невирішених проблем інноваційного розвитку, визначення чинників, які гальмують активізацію інноваційної діяльності промислових підприємств, зокрема в галузі машинобудування, та формування шляхів їх подолання. Для досягнення мети застосовано загальнонаукові та порівняльно-аналітичні методи.
 З’ясовано, що фінансування інноваційних програм потребує значних коштів. На жаль, держава виділяє лише 1-2% від загального обсягу необхідних коштів, внаслідок чого основним джерелом фінансування інноваційної діяльності залишаються власні кошти підприємств, частка яких у 2013 р. значно зросла та становила 72,9 % від загального обсягу витрат. Виявлено, що стимулюванню інноваційного розвитку буде сприяти запозичення позитивного досвіду в промислово-розвинених країнах. Наголошено, що серед ключових інструментів заохочення прикладних наукових досліджень і розробок, пов’язаних із упровадженням передової технології, у розвинених країнах провідне місце займає наявність пільгового оподаткування.
 За результатами дослідження теоретичних положень та проведеного статистичного аналізу інноваційної діяльності підприємств визначено умови, необхідні для впровадження інноваційних продуктів на промислових підприємствах України:
 - посилення участі державних і регіональних органів у координації та контролі робіт промислових підприємств з підвищенням обсягів фінансування інноваційних програм;
 - збільшення промисловими підприємствами в структурі впровадження інноваційних видів продукції частки нових видів машин, устаткування, приладів, апаратів;
 - активізація впровадження нових форм маркетингової стратегії відносно виходу на зовнішні ринки власних видів інноваційної продукції.
 Наукова новизна одержаних результатів ґрунтується на пропозиції щодо нового підходу використання наявних резервів активізації інноваційної діяльності промислових підприємств, зокрема ДП «ВО “Південний машинобудівний завод ім. О. М. Макарова”»; в удосконаленні чинного законодавства шляхом врахування позитивного зарубіжного досвіду податкового стимулювання інноваційної діяльності.
 У подальших дослідженнях проблеми інноваційного розвитку промислових підприємств України вивчення потребує розробка заходів із удосконалення керування на державному та регіональному рівні з подолання перешкод активізації інноваційної діяльності.
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Problems of Coordination of High-Tech Enterprises Strategies in Implementation of Innovative Technologies

Implementation of innovative technologies in cooperative enterprises is complicated by the fact that the innovative strategy of an enterprise would not be supported by its partners. As a result, even a generally profitable innovative project may remain unrealized because the partners will not take risks of investing into specific assets. Similar problems occur in connection with launch of manufacturing of high-tech components for sophisticated products (particularly, as part of import substitution). The article suggests a simple game theory model, which illustrates the problems of coordination of partner enterprises’ strategies in implementation of innovative products. Unlike well-known models, this model takes into account the specific nature of high-tech industries, including the cost structure of the product life cycle, which affects costs and losses. This model may be used for quantitative estimations in the course of substantiation of innovative technologies implementation strategies in certain high-tech industries. The suggested model helped to analyze the efficiency of various mechanisms of enterprise strategies coordination in implementation of interrelated innovative technologies. The article studies the market mechanisms of coordination, as well as the mechanisms of compensations to members of unimplemented innovative projects. We also analyzed the impact of institutional factors (such as trust in the systems integrator of the project, transparency of innovative development strategy) on the efficiency of such mechanisms. Special attention is paid to the specific features of the military-industrial complex, the problems of which are the most challenging in this respect. We made a conclusion about the inevitable need for the centrally controlled implementation of innovative technologies by Russian high-tech industries, which fulfill large-scale modernization and import substitution programs. This suggests construction of integral innovative technological chains in state corporations, making their links independent. The article comes up with recommendations focusing on enhancement of the market incentives for participation of independent small and medium-sized enterprises in innovative projects of large high-tech corporations. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s4p172

Temporal Factors in the Planning of Innovative Development of Companies in the Pharmaceutical Industry

This is analysis of the pharmaceutical companies on the subject of innovative development. Given that the pharmaceutical industry take time for the development and implementation of innovative products and require a large investment, inefficiency and failure of innovation is extremely costly for companies. In order to reduce the costs associated with innovation, it is necessary to know the regulatory timelines of implementation. Existing theories of the life cycles of business are purely descriptive in nature, which is not possible to accurately determine the time and used transdisciplinary systems approach allows up to 70% to determine the calendar dates for different kinds of innovations. In this regard, using the analysis set periods of innovation of different orders, the General regularities of the development companies for effective strategic planning and management of innovative activities.

FOSTERING RESEARCH AND INNOVATION ACTIVITIES IN TAMBOV STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

The paper discusses the importance and objectives of research and innovation activities at a modern institution of higher education. It describes the stages of professional training for research and innovation activities and elements of the innovative infrastructure of Tambov State Technical University that carry out research and innovation training. The developed infrastructure ensures the process of training for research and innovation activities in the priority fields of university and regional development. One of the prerequisites for success must be active and mutually beneficial cooperation in research, innovation and education between the university and enterprises of the real sector, in the forms of collaborative research, design and implementation of innovative products and technologies. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2227-930X-2013-3-6

Status quo der theoretischen und empirischen Innovationskulturforschung sowie Konstruktkonzeptualisierung des Phänomens Innovationskultur

An innovation orientated corporate culture is often seen as a driving force for the development and implementation of innovative products and processes. In the theoretical discussion concerning the culture of innovation phenomena a general accepted definition and a clear understanding concerning the content of such a culture seems not to exist. From analyzing conceptual papers and empirical studies, an integrative summary of the previous researches is developed in order to identify the main dimensions of an innovation orientated culture. This systematical approach provides a framework for further analysis and exploration of a culture of innovation.