Innovativeness as a factor determining competitiveness of small- and medium-sized enterprises

Abstract

Innovations are a process of creating and spreading technical changes which achieve certain economic and social benefits. Promoting innovations and implementing them in enterprises conditions a good position on the global market. An adequate innovative policy of a state should lead to decreasing the economic, technological and organisational gap between Poland’s economy and those of advanced countries. Polish enterprises, particularly small and medium ones, following the accession into EU, should perceive innovative solutions as the basis for economic development and employment increase. There are a number of innovativeness development determinants which can include economic development growth, level of outlays on education, legal and regulatory solutions.