VOKOUN, Marek. R&D and Innovation Activities – Search for Better definitions and an Economic-Historical Approach. Online. In Jiri Rotschedl, Klara Čermáková. Wienna 2nd Economics & Finance Conference Proceedings. Prague: IISES and University of Economics, Prague, 2014, p. 553-576, 23 pp. ISBN 978-80-87927-01-4.
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Original name R&D and Innovation Activities – Search for Better definitions and an Economic-Historical Approach
Name in Czech V&V a inovační aktivity - hledání vhodných definic a ekonomickohistorického přístupu
Authors VOKOUN, Marek.
Edition Prague, Wienna 2nd Economics & Finance Conference Proceedings, p. 553-576, 23 pp. 2014.
Publisher IISES and University of Economics, Prague
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Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Field of Study 50200 5.2 Economics and Business
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form electronic version available online
WWW URL
Organization unit Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice
ISBN 978-80-87927-01-4
Keywords (in Czech) inovace, imitace, invence, strategie firem, tržní podmínky, instituce, produktivita, cliometrie, rozvojové země, endogenní růst, technologická změna
Keywords in English Innovation, imitation, invention, firm’s strategies, market conditions, institutions, productivity, cliometrics, developing country, endogenous growth, technological change
Tags International impact
Changed by Changed by: Ing. Marek Vokoun, Ph.D., učo 17706. Changed: 23/10/2014 13:13.
Abstract
The paper examines the challenges social scientists face when analysing innovation, especially R&D and innovation activities of firms, i.e. their strategies in typical stages of an innovation process in a defined economy. The motivation behind is to describe properly the innovation activities of firms in the proper economic-historical context. There are many ways innovation can be understood (inter-culturally/inter-nationally) and different ways in which firms, institutions, and governments organize and undertake innovation activities. Entrepreneurs and multinationals are an essential part of market mechanism and innovation is, ex ante, beneficial for them. There are many theories and the current ones demand interdisciplinary approach. It is due to the dynamic nature of innovation and the global context – economic crises, the Internet. At the end of the paper current definition misunderstanding in social sciences is discussed and a better understanding is introduced, which builds upon the simultaneous nature and almost interchangeable relationship between innovation, imitation and invention.
Abstract (in Czech)
Tento příspěvek analyzuje výzvy, kterým čelí společenskovědní vědci při analýze inovací, obzvláště pak jde o výdaje na V&V, strategie firem a jejich aktivity v typických fázích inovačního procesu. Cílem tohoto příspěvku je připomenout důležitost ekonomicko-historického kontextu na pozadí definičního zmatení (inovace,imitace, invence, malý podnik) a dynamičnosti inovačního procesu. Nové přístupy tak musí reflektovat interdisciplinární přístup a globální kontext. Tento článek nabízí řešení v podobě cliometrického přístupu a definováním pojmů imitace, invence a inovace.
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