The Economics and Politics of Process Innovation and the Sustainable Urban Development

Control process development on the ground of project value dynamics laws

“…Innovations are associated with the phases of the economic cycle and may have a different focus. As noted in [11], product innovation prevails during periods of economic boom, and during times of economic crisis organizational innovation and rationalization of processes are more common. In addition, there are two more types of innovation: in the field of marketing and R&D [12].…”

Underrated Innovativeness of Micro-Enterprises Compared to Small to Medium Enterprises in the Slovenian Forest-Wood Sector

“…For instance, in Croatia, it was found that micro-enterprises in the CIS are less likely to innovate than small to medium enterprises but are more likely to innovate than large enterprises [10]. A similar analysis based on CIS data was done for the Czech Republic's manufacturing industry, and the results show that larger enterprises have more process innovations and fewer research and development expenses per employee [11]. In contrast, a study of Greek enterprises in the CIS found a weak negative correlation between size and innovation performance [12].…”

“…Similarly, because they usually do not have their own research and development and marketing departments [11,17] and have less resources [16,18], H6 is proposed: compared to SMEs, micro-enterprises have fewer in-house research and development innovation activities (H6a), more external research and development (H6b), less acquisition of machinery, equipment, software and buildings (H6c), more acquisition of existing knowledge from other enterprises or organisations (H6d), more training for innovative activities (H6e), less market introduction of innovations (H6f) and fewer innovation activities in design (H6g).…”

The relation between aging of population and sustainable development of EU countries

“…It should be noted that many of these scientists argue over the concept of a traditional and sustainable economy. (Bartelmus, 2010;Daniels, 2010;Todaro, Smith, 2011;Blum, Legey, 2012;Lund, Hvelplund, 2012;Binder, Witt, 2012;Birkin, Polesie, 2013;Lejano, Stokols, 2013;Stankevičienė et al, 2014;Vokoun, 2016;Nogueira, 2019;Bartley, 2019, Reis et al, 2019. In the work of Todaro and Smith (2011) three different attitudes towards the development of the economy are distinguished, i.e., traditional attitude, new economy attitude and Amartya Sen's attitude of "abilities".…”

“…All in all, the concept of sustainable development is based on the evaluation of how decisions of the society in one of the fieldseconomy, social, and environmentalwill impact the other two. In scientific articles, sustainable development (Bartelmus, 2010;Blum, Legey, 2012;Lund, Hvelplund, 2012;Stankevičienė et al, 2014;Vokoun, 2016;Maknickienė et al, 2018;Nogueira, 2019, Sarma et al, 2019Reis et.al., 2019;Pereira et al, 2020) is analyzed in relation to different approaches: ecological sustainability of the resilience of ecosystems; economic sustainability of non-declining welfare, the notion of theoretical environmental economics; economic sustainability of economic performance and growth, using modified accounting indicators of produced and natural capital formation; and sustainability of development, which seeks to meet present and future needs of the society.…”