Transition to Innovative Company

The common charactsistic of companies in the transition countries is that they attained competitiveness by low prices and not by new designs, a product innovation or new manufacturing methods. It was the reason that we investigated the current capabilities of Slovenian companies to reveal the major reasons for such situation. Taking into account the main obstacles for Slovenian companies to innovate we determine and describe the theoretical model which could facilitate the transition process of Slovenian companies to innovative companies.