Bariery wprowadzania innowacji w przedsiębiorstwach przetwórstwa spożywczego w Polsce w latach 2002-2010

The aim of this article is to present the results of research concerning Polish enterprises in the food sector with particular focus on innovativeness. Attention is paid particularly to factors hampering innovation in the food product and beverages sector as well as indicated key barriers in the groups of enterprises according to their size. In the research data widely available from CSO as well as unpublished data from the three periods of research: 2002-2004, 2004-2006 and 2008-2010 were used. The research has shown that performance of innovative enterprises is limited mainly due to economic factors and the importance of these factors decreases with the increase of the size of the company.