Author: Wojciech Grabowski / Topic: Innovation

Author:: Krzysztof Szczygielski, M. Teoman Pamukcu, Sinan Tandogan, and Wojciech Grabowski
Publication Date:: 08-2013
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Center for Social and Economic Research - CASE
Abstract:: Mediterranean and EU member countries consider enhancing innovation and R&D an important policy objective. In order to improve economic competitiveness and increase their citizens’ welfare, these countries have been formulating and implementing innovation policies. In recent years, the volume of resources allocated to such policies has considerably increased and the number of instruments used in this framework has widened. Nevertheless, a relatively limited number of studies have been conducted to assess the effectiveness of innovation policies in these countries and formulate proposals for those aspects of policies that are in contradiction with the aims.
Topic:: Government, Economy, Social Policy, and Innovation
Political Geography:: Europe, Central Asia, Turkey, Poland, Mediterranean, and European Union

Author:: Krzysztof Szczygielski, Richard Woodward, and Wojciech Grabowski
Publication Date:: 05-2013
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: Center for Social and Economic Research - CASE
Abstract:: Differences in the growth of firms remain a major topic in economics and strategy research. In this paper we investigated the link between innovation performance and employment growth. First we discuss the problem from the theoretical point of view and then we analyze the relationship between innovation performance and the dynamics of employment in the Polish service firms in 2004-2009. Firms that introduced new services or marketing techniques experienced stronger growth. Process innovations contributed to employment reduction. Tellingly, this effect could only be observed in 2008-2009, a subperiod which saw the lowest levels of aggregate demand. This conclusion yields support to the presumption formulated by Pianta (2005) that the impact of innovation on employment growth depends on the macroeconomic situation.
Topic:: Development, Economy, Macroeconomics, Innovation, and Private Sector
Political Geography:: Europe and Poland

Author:: Krzysztof Szczygielski, Richard Woodward, and Wojciech Grabowski
Publication Date:: 06-2013
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: Center for Social and Economic Research - CASE
Abstract:: The authors use the insights from strategy research and innovation studies to address two principal questions regarding the technology strategy of a firm: what are the distinct elements of technology strategy and what are the strategy determinants? Equipped with Zahra’s (1996) concept of measuring technology strategy, we analyze data from two runs of the Community Innovation Survey for Polish service firms. They propose a set of indicators reflecting four principal fields of technology strategy: pioneer-posture, R&D efforts, technology portfolio, and monitoring activities. Interactions between the strategic variables are analyzed and their determinants are assessed. The results suggest that technology strategies are determined by both factors external to the firm, and by the hitherto less stressed in the CIS-based empirical literature, internal factors. The role of internal factors increases with the macroeconomic environment becoming less favourable.
Topic:: Development, Science and Technology, Innovation, and Private Sector
Political Geography:: Europe and Poland

Author:: Krzysztof Szczygielski, M. Teoman Pamukcu, Sinan Tandogan, and Wojciech Grabowski
Publication Date:: 08-2013
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: Center for Social and Economic Research - CASE
Abstract:: The aim of the project is to analyze government support for innovation in a comparative perspective by first examining the main existing instruments of financial support for innovation in Turkey and Poland, and secondly to assess their effectiveness by applying recent econometric techniques to firm-level data for both countries obtained from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS). Comparing Turkey to Poland is both meaningful and promising from a policy-analysis point of view. Both countries are comparable in terms of levels of economic development and technological capabilities, i.e. the ability of their economies to create knowledge and exploit it commercially. Both have undergone deep market-oriented reforms in the last decades – Turkey since 1980, Poland since 1989 – resulting in a significant catching-up of their economies. However, as the possibilities for further growth based on structural change and eliminating obstacles to business.
Topic:: Economics, Government, Markets, and Innovation
Political Geography:: Europe, Turkey, Middle East, Poland, and Mediterranean

Author:: Krzysztof Szczygielski and Wojciech Grabowski
Publication Date:: 12-2012
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: Center for Social and Economic Research - CASE
Abstract:: Industry - and firm-level research into both innovations and productivity has long been limited to manufacturing. With this paper, we aim to contribute to the stream of literature that aims at extending the scope of such investigations to the services industry. To this end we analyze the innovation strategies in several service sectors in Poland in 2008 and examine their relationship to productivity. Our results show that service firms differ considerably in their innovation strategies, but that most of those strategies lead to productivity gains.
Topic:: Development, Innovation, Private Sector, and Knowledge Economy
Political Geography:: Europe and Poland

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