Business Innovation Activity in Romania: The Main Trends and Weaknesses

Procedia, social and behavioral sciences Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.03.019

Mihaela Diaconu, Adrian Vilcu

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Innovation is vital for each country's economic growth. This paper comprises an analysis of the main indicators that characterize innovation activity in Romanian firms. Improving our knowledge of firms’ activities in aspects associated with their behavior related to innovation is important for monitoring the strengths and weaknesses of the national innovation systems. Our study on Romanian firms is based entirely on the published data by Eurostat (the Commission Innovation Survey - CIS), which centralizes data every two years, the last have been published at the end of 2016 (CIS 9) covering the period 2012-2014. From building and analyzing three main types of general innovation indicators related to firms’ innovativeness, including innovation inputs and outputs, our results show that the main weaknesses in business innovation persist over time and they consist of the extremely low share of innovative firms, a low level of business innovation expenditures and a high volatility of innovation performance based on creative effort resulted from R&D activities still concentrated in a few industries.

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罗马尼亚的商业创新活动:主要趋势和弱点

创新对每个国家的经济增长都至关重要。本文分析了罗马尼亚企业创新活动的主要指标。提高我们对企业创新行为相关方面的知识，对于监测国家创新体系的优势和劣势非常重要。我们对罗马尼亚公司的研究完全基于欧盟统计局(委员会创新调查- CIS)发布的数据，该数据每两年集中一次，最后一次发布于2016年底(CIS 9)，涵盖2012-2014年期间。通过构建和分析与企业创新能力相关的三种主要类型的一般创新指标(包括创新投入和创新产出)，我们的结果表明，企业创新的主要弱点持续存在，它们包括创新企业的份额极低，企业创新支出水平低，创新绩效的高度波动性基于研发活动的创造性努力仍然集中在少数行业。

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