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Lewandowska Małgorzata Stefania (Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie)
Title
Partners and Barriers in Innovation Cooperation - a Survey of Polish Exporters
Partnerzy i bariery w innowacjach - wyniki badań polskich eksporterów
Source
Prace i Materiały Instytutu Handlu Zagranicznego Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2012, nr 31/1, s. 520-537, bibliogr. 52 poz.
Keyword
Potencjał innowacyjny, Konkurencyjność międzynarodowa, Konkurencyjność przedsiębiorstwa, Innowacyjność przedsiębiorstw, Eksport, Współpraca przedsiębiorstw
Innovation potential, International competitiveness, Enterprise competitiveness, Enterprise innovation, Export, Enterprises cooperation
Note
summ.
Abstract
Przedsiębiorstwa krajów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej (w tym Polska), aby być konkurencyjne na rynkach międzynarodowych, muszą wzmocnić swój potencjał innowacyjny i przeorientować strategie konkurowania w stronę dyferencjacji produktowej. Międzynarodowa konkurencyjność przedsiębiorstw zależy w dużym stopniu od przewag wynikających ze współpracy z innymi podmiotami rynku. W tym kontekście identyfikacja partnerów współpracy w innowacjach, jak również znaczenie występujących w niej barier wydaje się uzasadnione. W prezentowanym artykule badany jest związek pomiędzy współpracą z różnymi partnerami w innowacjach procesowych, produktowych, marketingowych i organizacyjnych a intensywnością ich wprowadzania, jak również poziomem eksportu i udziałem sprzedaży innowacyjnych produktów w sprzedaży ogółem. Analiza przeprowadzona jest na próbie 209 polskich eksporterów. W badaniu wykorzystano analizę opisową i regresję logistyczną. Uzyskane wyniki pokazują, że zarówno współpraca wertykalna, jak i horyzontalna i instytucjonalna, mają wpływ na intensywność innowacyjną badanych przedsiębiorstw, intensywność eksportu i sprzedaży nowych produktów. Wykazany został też zróżnicowany wpływ barier kooperacji na poziom innowacyjności.(abstrakt oryginalny)

Firms in Central and Eastern Europe (including Poland), need to improve innovation performance and base their competitive strategies more on offering differentiation in order to be more competitive internationally. As theoretical concepts of firm international competitiveness underline the importance of external sources of competitive advantage, empirical studies on innovation cooperation and identification of major collaboration partners as well as importance of cooperation barriers may bring insight into this field. The study elaborates on the research question of whether the openness for cooperation has a positive influence on process, product, marketing and organizational innovation output as well as on the new products sales intensity and export intensity. The impact of different cooperation barriers is measured as well. The paper is based on the results of the study on innovation cooperation of 209 Polish exporters from manufacturing sectors. Descriptive statistics as well as ordered probit regression were applied to answer the research questions. The analysis shows, that horizontal, vertical as well as institutional cooperation is important for all types of innovations introduced by Polish exporters. Different partners clusters were found in the context of new products sales intensity and export intensity. Barriers for cooperation in the researched areas were also distinguished.(original abstract)
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