Aktywność innowacyjna gospodarki regionu Podkarpacia na tle kraju

The article is dedicated to the problem of innovative activity of the Podkarpackie regions’ economy, against the country’s. Analysis was made based on survey research conducted in 2007 on a group of 500 randomly selected inhabitants of the Podkarpackie region. The whole study consists of four parts, of which the first part characterizes the research attempt, the second is an attempt to judge the way Podkarpackie region’s inhabitants perceive innovativeness, the third analyses innovative activity of Polish regions against the most innovative regions of the European Union, and the fourth contains a conclusion of the undertaken meditation