A Proposal for a Standard With Innovation Management System

Ladislav Ludvík and Jindra Peterková
period 2008-2010 there were about 42% of non-technical innovations and technical innovations were
implemented in 35% of companies.
Figure 1: Enterprise’s innovative activities 2004-2010, Innovation Statistics, Czech Statistical Office,
2011
If we compare the Czech enterprises with the EU enterprises by Eurostat (see Figure 2) then
enterprises in the CR in terms of scale innovations are slightly above the European average. In terms
of the extent of innovations, the best enterprises are in Germany (approx. 80%). The lowest
tendencies for innovations on the other side of the European rankings were recorded in Latvia,
Poland and Hungary (below 30%).
Figure 2: Proportion of innovative enterprises, 2008 (% of all enterprises), Eurostat (inn_cis6_type)
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Innovation_statistics
If we look at innovation activity by the size of an enterprise, it is clear, that large enterprises tend to
innovate more than small and medium enterprises (see Table 2). For large enterprises, eight out of
ten innovate. Technical and non-technical innovations in large firms are well represented as a
percentage (66%). In small enterprises the percentage ratios of non-technical innovation are higher.
Table 2: Enterprises with technical and non-technical innovations between 2008-2010
Source: Innovation Statistics, Czech Statistical Office, 2011
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