INOVÁCIE V SAMOSPRÁVE
INNOVATIONS IN SELF-GOVERNMENT

Summary/Abstract: The objective of the paper was to identify and analyse the state and level of implementation of the innovative tools used for increasing of effectiveness, performance and quality of services offered by selected local self-governments in Slovakia. Selfgovernments realize the importance of innovations for increasing the effectiveness of the working process and quality of the provided services, therefore, they try to create and implement innovations within their financial and personal framework. Within the analysed self-governments, there were presented mostly the innovations of services,innovation of processes and organizational innovations. From the point of view of level of innovations, those are predominantly incremental innovations and from thestandpoint of level of originality, those are mainly imitating innovations, which areimplemented. Stimuli for innovations come from internal, as well as, from externalenvironment, when the self-governments transfer the knowledge from other selfgovernmentsor from abroad. The share of expenditures spent on innovations variesfrom 1% to 10% of the total budget of self-governments.

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