Conference problem areas

Innovation management in an organization, economy, UE and in the world

  • Global view on innovativeness (Poland’s position on the world’s innovativeness map,  innovations in the UE economic strategy)
  • Innovative methods of management in companies and in the administration
  • New concepts in the science and in the management practice
  • Regional strategies of innovations (coordination of innovative processes in a region and the country)

Creativity, innovativeness, entrepreneurship as a theoretical problem and the research area

  • Creativity, innovativeness, entrepreneurship in an organization/company strategy
  • New view on the role of management in an economic activity
  • Business innovation models, eco-innovativeness
  • Models of a learning and an innovative organization
  • Social context of innovativeness
  • Innovativeness in a process of increasing the companies competitiveness

Potential of an innovative company (creating a company innovation capacity)

  • Innovation inspirations (staff creativity, an organization creative predispositions, a role of a manager’s competences, innovation teams, involving staff in innovation processes)
  • Pro-active attitude to an innovation
  • Innovation barriers, opportunities and threats, resistance to innovations
  • Supporting creativity and innovativeness
  • Sources of innovations financing'

Innovativeness – cause and effect of entrepreneurship

  • Innovativeness of small and medium enterprises vs. a possibility of creating new work places
  • Entrepreneurship as an innovative action stimulation factor of small and medium enterprises (innovativeness of small and medium enterprises)
  • Creating the innovation environment for small and medium enterprises
  • Determinants of a company growth (tools, areas, barriers and manifestations)
  • Growth of the small and medium enterprises sector activities (conditions, supporting instruments)
  • Entrepreneurship: local, staff/intra-entrepreneurship, unemployed, intellectual, academic, organizational, pro-active leadership
  • Creating the entrepreneurial potential of organizations, schools, higher education institutions
  • Successes and defeats of entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurship support