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The timesaving factor in reaching the same results as compared with using
domestic research potential is also important. Consequently, own scientific research
development is often accelerated in the given field. The right decisions
on acquiring, e.g. a license, to a great extent determines success, as does the
awareness of the economic and social environment in a given country. The importance
of innovation for economic development is unquestionable but the appropriate
(effective and efficient) pro innovation policy 27 is of key significance.
Summarising, innovation should be understood as an act of qualitative
change in economy when the manufacture of a new product or implementation
of a new process begins as well as the product or process itself. 28 Drucker states 29
that the innovation discipline, which involves knowledge that provides grounds
for entrepreneurship, is a diagnostic discipline, systematically studying the areas
of change, usually creating business opportunities both in the organisation and
in its environment.
1.3. Innovation source
When defining innovation as the introduction of new solutions in technology,
organisation and marketing, innovation potential is identified by; internal factors
resulting from the capacity to activate existing resources in the economy,
and external factors connected with imitation and adaptation of solutions from
abroad. Innovations will be acquired thanks to own R&D projects and transfer
of technologies and innovations as direct foreign investments, import of advanced
goods including license agreements, franchising, acquisitions and strategic
alliances.
Regular innovation will involve objective-driven organised search for
change and continuous analysis of opportunities for social and economic innovations
that could make the change possible. Thus, the sources of innovation
will embrace areas related to developing and acquiring knowledge.
Innovation sometimes comes with inspiration and a flare of genius; however,
most often it results from regular work based on analysing the following
sources of innovation 30 (see Fig. 2).
27 Cf.: S. Pangsy-Kania, Polityka innowacyjna pañstwa a narodowa strategia konkurencyjnego rozwoju,
Published by the University of Gdañsk, Gdañsk 2007.
28 S. Gomu³ka, Teoria innowacji i wzrostu gospodarczego, CASE, Warsaw 1998, p. 17.
29 P. F. Drucker, Innowacja i przedsiêbiorczoœæ ... , p. 44 and on.
30 Cf.: P. F. Drucker, Dyscyplina podejœciu do innowacji, Harvard Business Review Polska, January
2004, p. 100.
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