Instruments supporting local innovativeness

Iwona Chomiak-Orsa , Michał Flieger

Abstract

The contemporary challenges that the economy raises for entities functioning on the mar-ket constitute the major stimulus for the transformation not only enterprises but also enti-ties comprising partners of the market competition. Hence, Local Government Entities aim-ing at the creation of appropriate conditions for the development of local entrepreneurship promote and implement instruments which are supposed to support local entrepreneurs in undertaking innovative and venturesome activities. The current article, which presents the selected instruments of supporting innovativeness by local government entities, is devoted to this problem. Its last part provides the charac-teristics of pilot studies conducted by the authors, which demonstrate the perception of the relevance of applying individual instruments promoting innovation by two groups of respondents i.e. representatives of local authorities and entrepreneurs.