OTVORENE INOVACIJE: TEORIJA I PRAKSA SA OSVRTOM NA PERIFERNE DRŽAVE
OPEN INNOVATIONS: THEORY AND PRACTICE WITH REFERENCE TO PERIPHERAL COUNTRIES

Author(s): Janez Prašnikar, Daša Farčnik, Tjaša Redek
Subject(s): Economy, National Economy, Public Finances, Accounting - Business Administration, Business Ethics
Published by: Finrar d.o.o Banja Luka
Keywords: open innovations; intellectual property; state policies; Slovenia; Western Balkans;
Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we studied the application of open innovation in companies and the role of government policies in this area. We presented the results of a major European project, the European Academic Network for Open Innovation (OI_Net). The project was implemented in the period 2014-2016, and 35 countries and 500 representative companies from all countries participated in it. In this paper, we present the results for Slovenia, as one of the countries participating in the project. The research showed that Slovenian companies lag behind European countries in the field of open innovation. Furthermore, it has been shown that in the initial phase of the development of open innovations, the size of the company, industry and export orientation of the companies are important. Top management support is even more important. We projected these results on the countries of the Western Balkans and considered the possibilities of using industrial policy to transfer knowledge in this area. Creating an innovation market in the Western Balkans would also require common regulation in at least two areas, namely competitiveness and intellectual property rights (IPR).

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