IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/vrn/hrmsnr/y2024i1p38-52.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Challenges To The Innovation Activity Of Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises In Bulgaria

Author

Listed:
  • Milena Filipova

    (South-West University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria)

  • Daniela Tancheva

    (South-West University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria)

Abstract

This report analyzes the dynamics of innovation activity of small and medium-sized enterprises in Bulgaria. Annual data of the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria (NSI) for the period 2000-2021 were used. The results show that the number of the large, medium and small enterprises is being decreasing, while those of the micro-enterprises is being increasing. The growth rates share of the innovation-active enterprises show that the small enterprises increase the fastest. The largest share of new or improved products which are new of the market was realized of the large enterprises. The RandD expenditure growth rate fastest were increased of micro-enterprises.

Suggested Citation

  • Milena Filipova & Daniela Tancheva, 2024. "Challenges To The Innovation Activity Of Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises In Bulgaria," INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL CONFERENCE "HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT", University of Economics - Varna, issue 1, pages 38-52.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrn:hrmsnr:y:2024:i:1:p:38-52
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://conference.ue-varna.bg/hrm/wp-content/uploads/Proceedings/Papers2023/Filipova-Tancheva.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    SMEs; Innovation; RandD expenditure; Bulgaria;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:vrn:hrmsnr:y:2024:i:1:p:38-52. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Radka Nacheva (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/uevarbg.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.