Fig. 1. Procedure of innovation-related decision-making in a
com-pany ... 32
Fig. 2. Relations between innovation and infrastructure ... 34
Fig. 3. Global Innovation Index in 2012 ... 39
Fig. 4 The overall innovation index (SII) 2013 ... 40
Fig. 5 Schematic structure of agribusiness and its division into sec-tions ... 53
Fig. 6. Food export in Poland in 2012 ... 59
Fig. 7. Direct foreign investments in food industry – infl ow and out-fl ow in the years 2003-2011 (in mln Euro) ... 62
Fig. 8 Volatility of the index WIG-Food and WIG 20 from 1 Janu-ary 2007 to 31 December 2012 ... 64
Fig. 9. The structure of the study population according to the period of operation of enterprises in the market ... 90
Fig. 10. Operating place of the surveyed companies ... 90
Fig. 11. The size of the operating place (by population size) ... 91
Fig. 12. Area of activity (market) companies ... 91
Fig. 13. Ownership structure in the surveyed companies ... 92
Fig. 14. Organizational-legal form of the company ... 92
Fig. 15. The surveyed companies by size ... 93
Fig. 16. Structure of surveyed companies by branch ... 94
Fig. 17. The degree of the impact of economic processes on the stud-ied food companies ... 95
Fig. 18. The degree of impact processes in the closer environment to the surveyed enterprises of the food industry ... 96
Fig. 19. The challenges facing the studied food industry enterprises ... 98
Fig. 20. Sources of advantages of the surveyed enterprises of the food industry over the competition ... 99
Fig. 21. Sources of information used by the surveyed enterprises of the food industry ... 101
Fig. 22. The rating the usefulness of sources of knowledge in the opin-ion of companies that have used them in 2007-2011 ... 102 Fig. 23. Measures to support the acquisition and transfer of
knowl-edge realized by the surveyed enterprises of the food indus-try in 2007-2011 ... 103 Fig. 24. The assessment of activities that support the acquisition and
transfer of knowledge in the opinion of enterprises imple-menting these activities in 2007-2011 ... 104 Fig. 25. The systems and tools used by the surveyed enterprises
of the food industry ... 105 Fig. 26. Activities related to the elements of knowledge management
implemented by the surveyed enterprises of the food indus-try in 2007-2011 ... 106 Fig. 27. Evaluation of the surveyed enterprises innovation in the
opin-ion of the respondents ... 108 Fig. 28. Selected characteristics of R & D activity in the surveyed
enterprises of the food industry (average value for the com-panies that have declared such an activity) ... 109 Fig. 29. Innovation projects implemented by the surveyed
enterpris-es of the food industry in Poland in 2006-2011 ... 117 Fig. 30. Expenditure on product innovations, organizational,
market-ing and processmarket-ing by the surveyed enterprises of the food industry in 2006-2011 ... 118 Fig. 31. A comparison of the expenditure incurred by the surveyed
enterprises of the food industry in the years 2006-2011 for projects relating to the various types of innovation ... 119 Fig. 32. The causes of the lack of innovations in food companies
in the years 2006-2011 ... 120 Fig. 33. The percentage of food industry companies cooperating with
the authorities and third parties in the years 2006-2011 ... 123 Fig. 34. The average level of funding for on knowledge management
in enterprises of the food industry, which incurred expenses for this purpose in the years 2007-2011 ... 127 Fig. 35. Percentage of respondents declaring food industry
compa-nies increase the value or volume of selected characteristics
of their operations due to fi nancial funding for knowledge management ... 127 Fig. 36. The average increase in profi ts in companies declaring
the impact of knowledge management at the level of the year 128 Fig. 37. The average increase in the value of sales in companies
de-claring the impact of knowledge management on the value in a given year ... 129 Fig. 38. The average increase in the value of turnover in companies
declaring the impact of knowledge management on their value in a given year ... 129 Fig. 39. The mean increase in sales markets in enterprises declaring
the impact of knowledge management on sales markets in-crease in a given year ... 130 Fig. 40. The average increase in corporate profi ts of the food
indus-try in 2007-2011 as a result of the implemented innovation ... 133 Fig. 41. The average increase in the value of the food industry
enter-prises in 2007-2011 as a result of the implemented innova-tion ... 134 Fig. 42. Food industry by Ward clustering methodinnovation
ac-tivities ... 138 Fig. 43. The mean values of the total expenditure incurred for the
im-plementation of marketing innovations, organizational, pro-cess and product from 2006-2011 for two separate groups of companies ... 141 Fig. 44. The average profi t growth in percentage terms in 2007-2011
to separate the two groups of companies ... 142 Fig. 45. The average increase in value of the company in terms of
per-centage in 2007-2011 to separate the two groups of compa-nies ... 142 Fig. 46. Food industry by Ward clustering method – knowledge
man-agement ... 144 Fig. 47. The mean values of the total funds allocated to the
manage-ment of knowledge in 2007-2011 for three separate groups of companies ... 149
Fig. 48. Average increase in profi ts of companies in the period 2007-2011 for the three separate groups of companies ... 150 Fig. 49. The average increase in sales of the company from
2007-2011 for three separate groups of companies ... 150 Fig. 50. The average increase in the value of the company’s turnover
in the period 2007-2011 for three separate groups of compa-nies ... 151 Fig. 51. The average percentage by which markets have increased
over the years of 2007-2011 for three separate groups of companies ... 151
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