What Prevents Businesses from Carrying out Eco-Innovation Activities? Empirical Research on Barriers in Slovak SMEs

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dc.contributor.authorKlement, Ladislav
dc.contributor.authorVinczeová, Miroslava
dc.contributor.authorKlementová, Vladimíra
dc.contributor.otherEkonomická fakultacs
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-27T12:41:02Z
dc.date.available2023-09-27T12:41:02Z
dc.description.abstractEco-innovations seem to be an effective tool of the transformation process towards sustainability where enterprises must play an active role. As small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) are one of the key accelerators of this transition, particular attention should be paid to the main factors that influence eco-innovation activities in this business segment. The paper focuses on the identification and assessment of barriers that limit the more intensive development of eco-innovation activities in Slovak SMEs. It analyses empirical data on barriers to eco-innovations and explores possible relationships between perceived barriers to eco-innovation, size of enterprise, the share of foreign capital in the enterprise's financing and involvement in eco-innovation activities. The research sample contains 487 randomly selected Slovak SMEs. The article presents the results of the examination of the barriers importance in eco-innovation activities in Slovak SMEs assessed by Likert scale values, descriptive statistics, and selected statistical methods including the Shapiro-Wilk test, Spearman correlation, Friedman test and Wilcoxon signed rank tests. The conclusions provide some deeper insights into the perception of barriers to eco-innovation in Slovak SMEs according to their size, share of foreign capital in financing and implementation or non-implementation of eco-innovation, with some results showing similarities with other studies conducted abroad, while others are specific only to Slovak SMEs.en
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dc.identifier.doi10.15240/tul/009/lef-2023-38
dc.identifier.isbn978-80-7494-627-1
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.tul.cz/handle/15240/172854
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTechnická Univerzita v Libercics
dc.publisherTechnical university of Liberec, Czech Republicen
dc.publisher.abbreviationTUL
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dc.relation.ispartofLiberec Economic Forum 2023en
dc.subjecteco-innovationsen
dc.subjectbarriersen
dc.subjectSlovakiaen
dc.subjectSMEsen
dc.subject.classificationO31
dc.subject.classificationQ52
dc.subject.classificationG32
dc.titleWhat Prevents Businesses from Carrying out Eco-Innovation Activities? Empirical Research on Barriers in Slovak SMEsen
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