Innovation in small and medium enterprises
| Author: | Bc. Marek Ehrenberger |
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| Year: | 2012 - summer |
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| Work type: | Bachelors |
| Language: | English |
| Pages: | 81 |
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| Abstract: | This thesis provides insight into factors that in uence the innovation activity of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Czech Republic. Its key part analyzes a survey conducted among over eleven hundred Czech SMEs. A model of determinants of innovations is constructed and estimated. Own R&D is identi ed as a key driver of innovations for the rms. Other important factors include investment into technology, improvement of quality of a product or service or presence on foreign markets. Barriers to innovations and external factors with negative impact as perceived by the rms do not prove to constitute a real inhibitor of innovative activities. |
| Downloadable: | Bachelor Theses of Ehrenberger |
