The Role of Cooperation and Observation in Innovative Activity of Polish Enterprises: Results from CIS 2008
The Role of Cooperation and Observation in Innovative Activity of Polish Enterprises: Results from CIS 2008

Summary/Abstract: innovative activities of Polish enterprises and subsidiaries of foreign companies operating in Poland. The study is based on CI S-2008 microdata collected by Poland`s Central Statistical Office. The data covers 15 840 observations – individual companies which answered questions on innovative activity. As CI S questionnaire provides mainly categorical data, logistic regressions are used to test research hypotheses in the paper. We use binomial logit at the first stage of the procedure (hurdle regression) and, due to limitation of Polish CI S data, zerotruncated negative binomial at the second stage. The analysis presented in the paper not only confirms empirically the importance of knowledge flows in innovation activity as indicated in the fifth generation of innovation process models but also reveals a pattern of partners matching. As enterprises choose similarly advanced partners, from the perspective of a medium developed country such as Poland, such matching pattern means international innovation cooperation of large companies in high-tech sectors and local collaboration of medium-sized enterprises in lower technology sectors.

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