INNOVATIONS IN BULGARIAN ENTERPRISES
The aim of this paper is to charactirize innovations in the Bulgarian enterprises with more than 10 employees.Data used is of the last official data of innovation survey – 2014, published on the website of the National Statistical Institute and provided in the frame of European innovation survey.The methodology of the collecting and interpreting innovation data has followed the methodological guidelines of Eurostat and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Oslo Manual, as well as other methodological guides from the Frascati Methological manuals family.After presenting applied methodology the topics discussed in the paper concern:- share of innovative enterprises;- share of the enterprises realizing new products on the market;- enterprises with different types of innovative cooperation.The main among tasks of the study was to identify the innovativeness of enterprises regarding:a) their size – small, middle and big ones;b) regarding belonging of enterprises to services or industry - defined by NACE.At the end conclusions are made. They could be asummed as follow:- the analysis of the innovation of the enterprises in Bulgaria shows that the overall level is low. The share of innovative enterprises in Bulgaria is 26.1%.;- higher innovation activity is performed by enterprises in industry;- there is a correlation between size of enterprises and their innovativeness. With the increase in the size of the enterprise, its innovation activity is growing, and large-scale enterprises are much more innovative than small enterprises.The paper as such is a results of an teaching experiment to include students in research incorporated into the course Innovation Management of Master's program, specialty Management of Services, of the University of Telecommunications and Post. The course is leaded byProf. Ph.D.,D.Sc. Rossitsa Chobanova.