The scope and type of applied innovations, as well as the speed of innovation by companies, today show a growing trend, which requires special efforts from the companies that claim to be leaders in the market. Therefore, these companies are forced to transform their innovative management into new forms. As an especially effective way to transform innovative management into the forefront, agile innovative management has emerged. Therefore, the theoretical desktop research of the state of development of agile innovative management from a number of perspectives has been carried out, as follows: agile innovation systems (AIS) as a phenomenon; the history of the creation of AIS; application of agile methods in companies; the basic function of agile innovation; places of agile innovation in the company; key elements of agile innovation; useful recommendations for companies that develop agile innovation; the process of agile innovation; agile behavioral approach; the uncertainty of agile innovation, and the measurement of agile innovation in companies. This paper summarizes the results of this research and gives guidelines to companies how to successfully implement agile innovation management.

The theory of evolution has found numerous analogies and applications in other scientific disciplines apart from biology. In that sense, today the so-called "memeticevolution" has been widely accepted. Memes represent a complex adaptable system, where one "meme" represents an evolutional cultural element, i.e. the smallest unit of information which can be identified and used in order to explain the evolution process. Among others, the field of innovations has proved itself to be a suitable area where the theory of evolution can also be successfully applied. In this work the authors have started from the assumption that it is also possible to apply the theory of evolution in the modelling of the process of innovation diffusion. Based on the conducted theoretical research, the authors conclude that the process of innovation diffusion in the interpretation of a "meme" is actually the process of imitation of the "meme" of innovation. Since during the process of their replication certain "memes" show a bigger success compared to others, that eventually leads to their natural selection. For the survival of innovation "memes", their manifestations are of key importance in the sense of their longevity, fruitfulness and faithful replicating. The results of the conducted research have categorically confirmed the assumption of the possibility of application of the evolution theory with the innovation diffusion with the help of innovation "memes", which opens up the perspectives for some new researches on the subject.

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Benchmarking analysis as a method of insight into the competitiveness of economic entities is often applied in the case of countries as well. With this type of analysis, it is possible to determine which segment of the economy of a certain country needs to be improved, in order to increase the overall competitiveness of the country. By benchmarking analysis of the key macroeconomic parameters of the countries of the Western Balkans (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Albania), we will determine the current competitive position of the Republic of Serbia in relation to the listed competitors (neighbouring countries). For these purposes, we analysed various macroeconomic parameters of the countries of the Western Balkans, such as GDP growth rates for the period of the last 10 years (from 2012 to 2021), GDP current/constant prices, GDP PPP, GDP per capita/PPP, unemployment rate, inflation rate and debt to GDP for 2021. The last group of data that we analysed in this paper consisted of the Total investment percentage of GDP of the countries of the Western Balkans for the period from 2012 to 2021, as well as the average level of the specified parameter in the observed period.

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