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Innovation in transition countries: case of Croatia

In cooperation with the Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI from Karlsruhe (Germany), Graduate School of Economics and Business Zagreb and Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (University of Split) conducted a survey with aim of collecting in-depth information about the innovativeness of Croatian manufacturing companies. The research is part of a broader project on European level and survey targets are discontinuous piece manufacturing companies with 20 or more employees. In this paper we describe the state of Croatian manufacturing sector on issues concerning usage of modern technology, machinery and equipment as wall as modern organizational concepts. The aim is to identify the current state, which will be a base for a longitudinal study of tracking innovation concepts in Croatia. The aim is to identify gaps between innovation practices in Croatian companies to those prescribed by theory. We examine which modernization efforts have been done, as well as the changes in product specifications within last two years. The results for Croatian manufacturing companies are compared with the latest prescribed technology in field of “ operations management” and other comparative studies. We explicitly explore which modernization concepts contribute mostly to financial performance.

manufacturing companies; innovations; Croatia

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