How to make Polish SMEs more innovative?
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The article presents the main results of the World Bank study undertook between 2014 and 2015, during which the Bank conducted more than 500 face-to-face interviews with top management of SMEs in four regions of Poland. The objective of the study was to identify key drivers and constraints of SME innovation, discover firms with the most innova-tion-based growth potential, and assess the quality of public support for innova-tion-oriented SMEs. The study found that among the interviewed SMEs there was a large group of companies with a significant potential for innovation-based growth. To help in-novative SMEs fully leverage their capa- city, public support for innovation will need to be modernized.
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