Evaluation of approaches to definition of innovations

• Main Authors: Jakub Tabas, Josef Polák, Michaela Beranová
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Mendel University Press 2010-01-01
• Series: Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis
• Subjects: aspects of innovation; classification of innovations; definition of innovation; innovation
• Online Access: https://acta.mendelu.cz/58/6/0563/

Currently innovations are necessary elements of economic growth and competitiveness of companies as well as they are necessary elements of global sustainable development. Even though it is possible to find a wide rouge of definitions of innovation but every one of them is based on different requirements. The aim of submitted article is to compare different approaches to definition of the content of innovation. The authors compare various definitions here and by use of analysis and synthesis, they determine important common elements which are possible to be found in various forms in a number of existing definitions. Then, these elements are compiled into own definition of the content of the term innovation.