The Significance of Regional Factors for Stimulating Innovativeness of Enterprises in Poland

Abstract

Innovativeness has had the full attention of business and science and has been perceived as the driving force of development of economies and societies for many years now (Schumpeter 1961), but the innovativeness level of Polish economy and enterprises is still unsatisfactory. In global and European rankings, Poland scores low on innovativeness and like other Visegrád countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Abstract