Innowacyjność przedsiębiorstw regionu łódzkiego – wyniki badania ankietowego

The objective of this paper is to analyse and assess innovation activities of companies from the Lodz region. Its first part focuses on identification and ranking factors that impact innovation activities in companies based on the literature of the subject. The second part studies main areas of innovation activities of companies in the Lodz region based on the results of a questionnaire survey conducted in 2012 on a group of randomly selected 500 economic operators from the region. Innovation activities in companies in the region face numerous barriers resulting from both internal factors relating to the company and external circumstances in the surrounding environment. Lack of financial resources for the implementation of innovations is the top ranking barrier. The following are also mentioned: market barriers, barriers connected with production and production factors, employment and technical infrastructure, and finally barriers connected with access to information.