A Proposal for a Standard With Innovation Management System

Ladislav Ludvík and Jindra Peterková
small and medium sized enterprises form the vast majority in the size structure of all enterprises
(approx. 60%).
Small enterprises offer an opportunity for self-realization of people in the productive process. They
represent local ownership relations. The effects from the entrepreneurship mostly stay within the
region to which they are much more closely related to. Their environment knows them and they are
publicly controlled. They create the urbanism of towns and villages, and improve the surroundings
(Veber, 2005). Their characteristic trait is the ability to adjust to the changing conditions. They try to
comply with individual wishes. Usually they are the bearers of tiny innovations
There is a sort of a gap opening between small and large enterprises. Usually, small enterprises
cannot invest into advanced technologies as the large enterprises do. They cannot start up huge
projects. They also cannot stand aside from enterprise-innovation changes. It leads many of them to
become subcontractors of larger enterprises.
2.3 Innovations
In the 1930ies, J.A. Schumpeter was dealing with the dynamics of economic changes and found out
that to enterprise means to invest. An entrepreneur is an investor, who develops untested techniques.
According to him, big enterprises are real implementers of innovations and economy movers are big
enterprises. They have resources and capital for investments to research and develop. Great
emphasis is put on the composition of capital in the productive process.
Time examines these ideas in the world today and those who "do not innovate will not survive"
(Kiernan, 1998). The development is not uniform, and economic time is not the same everywhere.
The economic movement is accelerating. Time and space are rather relative and bring extraordinary
effects in global and local context to those who can work with them. Innovation activities determine
the future viability of the enterprise. Invention and innovation potential become the essence of the
knowledge society.
Innovation may relate to product services, manufacturing plant, technology, materials, training of
engineers, workers, managers, business organizations, the relationship among companies, market
etc. Innovation should not be an end in itself, but it should contain itself the development charge and
should lead to more advanced performance, yield and utility properties. Innovation has its own life,
which is bearing fruit. Sooner or later it will dissipate. A new (permanent) innovation effort is needed,
new investments, or near extinction is to happen.
Increasing interest in innovation is growing. Not every innovation, however, has the same income. We
meet the innovation simply and easily applicable. Significantly different characters are disruptive
innovations that significantly change the current practice (Jirásek, 2008). This is done usually by
exponentiation knowledge of enterprise potential. In further development, an increasingly important
role likely will be the knowledge, intellectual, originality, science supported elements of production and
trade.
There are more points of view on innovations for example F. Valenta. In the 60´s and 70´s, statistical
surveys according to F. Valenta methodology were carried out in the corporate sector of the CSSR.
An unique collection of empiric data was put together. His recent valuable notion is concerned with
new stem of revolutionary innovations (Valenta, 2000) in the microtechnology domain (genetic
engineering, nanotechnology etc.).
There are more views on innovations. It can be a novelty aspect of innovation, the aspect of
participation of subjects in the creation of innovation, innovation aspect, the aspect of gaining market,
methodology aspect of innovation etc. At present, innovations are being monitored by the EU
statistical sample survey (In relation to the second edition of the Oslo Manual). The purpose is to
provide internationally comparable data on innovation environment and innovations in enterprises.
They monitor technological innovations (product and process) and non-technological innovations
(marketing and organizational). The purpose of statistics is to map the area of innovation activities by
companies' decisions to innovate through necessary resources, partners, own innovation to economic
benefits arising from the introduction of innovation.
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