Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 2 / 2018 (615), Summer
Innovation – trends and patterns at Romanian firms
“Gheorghe Asachi” University of Iasi, Romania
Abstract. Innovation is vital for each country's economic growth. This paper comprises an analysis of the main indicators that characterize innovation activity in Romanian firms. Improving our knowledge of firms' activities in aspects associated with their behavior related to innovation is important for monitoring the strengths and weaknesses of the national innovation systems. Our study on Romanian firms is based entirely on the published data by Eurostat (the Commission Innovation Survey – CIS), which centralizes data every two years, the last have been published at the end of 2016 (CIS 9) covering the period 2012-2014. From building and analyzing three main types of general innovation indicators related to firms' innovativeness, including innovation inputs and outputs, our results show that the main weaknesses in business innovation persist over time and they consist of the extremely low share of innovative firms, a low level of business innovation expenditures and a high volatility of innovation performance based on creative effort resulted from R&D activities still concentrated in a few industries.
Contents
Studying banking performance from an accounting perspective: Evidence from Europe
Corruption, governments’ debts, trade, and global growth
Innovation – trends and patterns at Romanian firms
How to build an economy free of recession and stagnation: results from a multi-commodity macro model
Analyzing the employment rate of the population, unemployment and vacancies in the economy
An implicit model of adjustment costs in differential input demand systems
Diversity and proportionality, challenges or opportunities for the European banking sector?
A competitive economy as the path to future prosperity: Comparative analysis of selected European countries
Studying the political economy of reforms: The Greek case, 2010-2017
Analysis of the evolution of the number of pensioners and pensions in Romania
Inflation unemployment dynamics in Hungary – A structured cointegration and vector error correction model approach
Are defence expenditures the reasons of foreign debts in Turkey?
Exports, imports and economic growth in India: Evidence from cointegration and causality analysis
The role of economic growth and energy consumption on CO2 emissions in E7 countries
Which comes first – savings or growth? Time series evidence from ECOWAS countries