Innovation Activity in Industry and Business Support Organizations in Poland in 2013–2017

Research background: Business support organization’s positive influence on innovation activity seems so obvious, but it is thought to find the systemic research that confirm such phenomenon form the one side. The author did not find papers with specific statistical interaction between them from the other one.

Purpose: The main research goal is to assess the systemic importance of relationships between business environment institutions and the type of innovative activity in Poland.

Research methodology: The survey was conducted in the years 2013–2017 on a group of 6,283 industrial companies in Poland (the primary database contained nearly eighty thousand active manufacturing enterprises with a 9% survey success rate). The author used multiregression logit models to describe the statistical significant relations between business support units and innovation activity in enterprises.

Results: The positive feedback from the logit models show us homogeneity of the country system from the one side (the same direction influence) and heterogeneity from the other (differences between support units) that flows from these interactions. The impact of the BSO units were statistically significant, strong and positive in most cases, excluding some exceptions.

Novelty: Appointment of systemic strength, direction and odds ratio of the impact the support units have on innovation activity in Poland.