Resistance to Technical Innovations in Organizations

Abstract

Reliable indicators which characterise today's “knowledge economy” are, above all, the reinforcement and growth of the service sector, proportional reduction of the workforce in the industry, increase in the share of intellectual property in the value of products and services, increase in the share of intellectual property in the value of the company and, nevertheless, the increase in the share of economic activities based on the exploitation of intellectual assets in BDP. As the two basic parameters, the increasing importance of intellectual property and the predominance of the service sector relative to the industrial sector are imposed. Why the low level of technology development and innovation in our country? What resistance inventors and
innovators in the organisations need to face? Answers to these questions are complex, yet through this work they will become much precise. This paper deals with the problem of resistance to change and in this respect the barriers to technological development in enterprises. Accordingly, the innovation climate will be analysed at the macro social level and at the micro level. The aim of the paper is to point out some problems of which resolutions require different measures and different approaches at the community level in order to avoid or accelerate the resistance to faster introduction of new technologies into business organisations.