Analysis Of Technological And Nontechnological Innovation In Slovakia 2006 - 2008

Iveta Stankovicova

Iveta Stankovicova University Bratislava

Keywords: Product, Process, Innovation, Technology, Slovakia

Abstract

The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2008 is a survey of innovation activities of enterprises in the EU Member States. The survey collects the information about the product and process innovation as well as organisational and marketing innovation and other key variables during the three-year period from 2006 to 2008 inclusive. The aim of this paper is to analyse innovation processes in Slovakia according to various factors: region, sector, size of enterprise, productivity of labour and so on. Various statistical methods (e.g. contingency tables, logistic regression, ANOVA) are explored for this purpose. The basic results are: (1) the ratio of enterprises with technological and non-technological innovation activities were 33.6% of all enterprises, (2) productivity of labour is significantly higher in Slovak enterprises with innovation activity,(3) the rate of innovation activity varies depending on analysing factors.

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