Innowacje a koncepcja zrównoważonej konkurencyjności – przypadek Polski
Innovation and Sustainable Competitiveness: Evidence from Poland

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on competitiveness seen from macroeconomic perspective, but understoodin a new, non-traditional, expanded way. It is the concept of sustainable competitiveness, whichrefers not only to improvements productivity, but also includes some additional aspects related tothe environmental and social issues. Innovation remains the key element of this concept, however,apart from technological innovation, new forms of innovation, such as eco-innovations and socialinnovations play a significant role in it. The main objective of this paper is to find out to what extentthese two new forms of innovation are correlated with Poland’s competitiveness. Using a revealedtechnological advantage (RTCA) index based on patent statistics changes in technological specializationhave been identified for Poland and for the whole EU 28 in the fields of environmentalmanagement technologies and human necessities in the period of 2000–2011. In the next step ofthe analysis RTCA indices in both fields have been used as proxies for eco-innovations and socialinnovations respectively. This paper shows that in the period of 2000–2011 these two new forms ofinnovation played an important role in shaping sustainable competitiveness of the Polish economy.

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