Naslov
Innovation in Croatian manufacturing: what do financial results show?

Autori
Prester Jasna, Veža Ivica

Izvornik
Economic and business review (1580-0466) 10 (2008), 1; 4-21

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
manufacturing companies; innovations; Croatia

Sažetak
Innovations are a core competence today (Loewe, Dominiquini, 2006). Dobni (2006) found more then a thousand recent books and articles on innovation that show a recent positive trend in this field of research. There are breakthrough innovations, and there are incremental innovations. There are innovative new products and innovative new technology. In this work we present a portion of the first results obtained on the Croatian sample. This whole research project called European Manufacturing Innovations Survey is conducted in most European countries and led by Fraunhofer Institute from Karlsruhe, Germany. The survey instrument is developed by Fraunhofer Institute and is conducted in parallel by all participating countries in order to facilitate cross-country comparisons. This survey started in 1993 in Germany in order to track innovation activities in manufacturing sector in Germany and is conducted on a two year basis. Croatia joined in 2003. and results presented here are the results from this first round. In this work we only consider questions addressing innovation and try to find out how innovations impact the bottom-up results. In exploring that issue we will get a glimpse of innovating activities in Croatian manufacturing sector. As with the first round of Community Innovation Survey led by The Institute of Economics Zagreb, the data shows encouragement in terms of innovation activities in Croatia (Račić, Radas, Rajh, 2005, p. 403).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija

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