Evaluation of innovation activities and innovation management model of selected innovative companies

The company’s success lies in understanding its situation and the differences in its own business and in creating original, and functioning innovation management system. The main task of the owner and management of the company is to create conditions for the creativity of its employees through the created method of providing financial resources and systematic creation of the research team. Innovation and its successful management and implementation helps to overcome the challenges of globalization. The paper aims to evaluate innovation activities, especially concerning the type of implemented innovation activities, initiator, way of development, obstacles, and type of protection of intellectual property. At the same time, the evaluation of innovation activity management is carried out according to the model of Wolcott and Lippitz (2007), which takes into account two parameters, namely the power of authority and organizational responsibility. Data on innovation activities of enterprises are obtained through a proper questionnaire survey carried out by selected innovative companies. The results of the questionnaire survey are evaluated using the IBM SPSS Statistics 21 statistical program. Cluster analysis is also used to identify categories of innovative enterprises.