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Nowadays, sustainability issues are at most importance for the global world. The Agenda 2030 for sustainable development is the key strategy in this field. When sustainability issues are discussed, the most often topics relate to sustainable cities, sustainable supply chain, sustainable transportation etc. However, it must be noted that sustainability concerns to almost all the issues related to the functioning of enterprises, society, cities, etc. It also has an impact on the innovation activity of enterprises. Responsible innovations, eco-innovation, green innovations are the topics lately studied by scholars around the world. Thus, the study aims to identify the relationships between terms of innovations related to the environment and other research areas presented in the literature. For this purpose, the extensive literature revives of publications indexed in the WoS database has been provided. The main research questions are: How the relationships between the notions described a new direction of the research in the innovations area for the environment, are created? Is it possible to identify the only one kind of relationship between the keywords described the eco-innovations and other similar notions with other research areas? The conducted analyzes show that in the literature many different terms describing innovations created for the environment, can be identified. Although innovations that are safe for the environment are a relatively new topic, the number of publications identified in the WoS database and their dynamic growth confirms the importance of research conducted in this area. Therefore, it is necessary to organize the terminology used and indicate whether these terms and in what cases can be applied interchangeably. Research in this area will also be conducted by the authors of this article in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of the paper is the identification of internal and external factors prompting selected Polish R&D departments to be active in innovation, R&D and user-driven innovation. To study the relation between selected determinants, econometric models were applied. The results of the adopted research procedure confirmed that it is important to invest in innovation activity but especially to have at least an R&D strategy in enterprise. The use of user-driven innovation concept is mostly unconsciously but still cooperation with users is an important factor in achieving the high level of innovation. Because of that, according to authors, the more advance research procedure to analyze the further determinants of innovation activity in R&D department in Poland should be applied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Abstract In the literature of field innovations, it has always been presented as the most important factor to achieve both the economic growth and the employment growth. Supporting innovations is also one of the aims of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation). The measurement of the innovation level of world economies has been of interest for several years for both economic theoreticians and practitioners. However, the real innovation level of world economies can be evaluated on the basis of a much more limited set of diagnostic features available in official statistics. That is why the main objective of the work is to assess the level of innovation of the European Union Member States based on the composite index which was proposed by authors using variables indicated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development strategy. The following specific objectives have been formulated as part of the main objective: (i) comparing the level of innovation of EU Member States based on the results of the ranking constructed by the authors; (ii) simplifying the tools for assessing activities undertaken under the 2030 Agenda strategy; (iii) building a tool that will allow for a long-term assessment of the effectiveness of measures to strengthen innovation within the framework of the sustainable development policy indicated in the 2030 Agenda; (iv) comparison of the results of the conducted research with the Summary Innovation Index (SII) published in the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS), which in the literature on the subject is one of the most frequently used rankings for assessing the level of innovation in European countries. The comparative analysis carried out here is intended to highlight that the level of innovation of European Union member states can be described equally well on the basis of a limited set of diagnostic features. The taxonomic measure of development based on the Weber median vector was used in the paper to assess the innovation level of the EU Member States. The research was conducted based on the indicators applied by Eurostat to monitor the implementation of Goal 9 of the 2030 Agenda. The applied method and the results obtained can be used in subsequent years to examine the direction of changes observed also from the point of view of the particular EU Member States in the area of the application of innovations for the implementation of sustainable development policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]