The Importance of Innovation in the Economy of Regions

Abstract

Innovation as an entrepreneurial tool is one of the most important resources influencing the pace of economic processes, focusing primarily on determining the competitive position of enterprises, sectors of economy, individual states, regions, municipalities and integrating countries. Business innovation is most often referred to as the motivation of business process participants to continually seek new research and new ideas, to produce improved equipment, materials, and services targeted to the marketplace. Innovation of the region is a function of motives, the ability of companies to seek new ideas, concepts and inventions, and to improve existing ones, co-operation between enterprises, local skills and experience, co-operation between the public sphere and enterprises, co-operation between science and business. The efficiency of these relationships is transferred to the degree of generation and absorption of innovation in the region. The subject of the study is to determine the importance of innovation in the economy of regions. The aim of the study is to show the role of innovation in the process of regions’ competitiveness. Measurement of innovation is an important tool for diversifying regions, allowing to indicate the areas on which their level of development depends The analysis shows that in the process of creating new technologies, infiltration of innovations, transfer management, the most important is the cooperation of enterprises and scientists, which is the basic level of mutual relations in the region. Local government does not participate directly in the creation of technology, but it plays a very important role in creating the conditions for shaping the KBE, often it creates the transfer of technology from science to business.