Quantitative Survey on Innovation in the Czech Republic

Abstract

One of the most important characteristics of innovation is that it is a continuous process in every organisation. The financial performance of organisations is strongly dependent on successful innovation. Innovation rate resp. the pace of technological change is mainly influenced by investment in research and the ability to use in practice. It is important to emphasise that innovation can also contribute to increasing safety, improving health care, improving the quality of products or services, and introducing environmentally friendly products. The goal of this article is to evaluate whether organisations are dedicated to innovation, to identify the sources of incentives to innovate and to assess the possibilities for further innovation development in organisations operating in the Czech Republic. The results (n1=364; n2=278; n3= 389), show that innovation logically takes the most part in management (67.58%; 62.95%; 60.15%) and specialists (60.16%; 57.19%; 58.87%) in the organisation in the analysed year and a very important source of intentions are employees. The most important innovation areas are quality of work and innovation´s activities are focusing on the strategic goal, approving innovation through management and management control (32.69%; 36.69%; 26.22%) and the innovative activity of organisations significantly influences competitiveness.