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It is vital to remember that there are numerous kinds of standards compliant with the ISO 9001 standard. ISO 9001 standard is one of many pro-quality solutions adopted in companies worldwide. Starting to apply pro-quality solutions in an organization, in particular the ISO 9001 standard implementation, is up to the decision making body. The analyses also show that the ISO 9001 standard meets the requirements of decision-making body. This trend is positive and continues to increase. Therefore, it is likely to forecast that the implementation dynamics will still be increasing in the near future.

The transition of the most developed countries' societies to a new phase based primarily on the creation, dissemination and use of knowledge, i.e. innovative development, has become a typical feature of modern economies. Activating innovation requires fundamental changes in the structure of social production and education and in the system of management and organization as well as the coordination of activities, the exchange of information, the mutual interaction of enterprises and the transfer of technologies.The effective and controlled mutual cooperation of selected international scientific organizations, scientific and research centres and companies leads to reduced costs of product innovation through the use of synergies from the mutual cooperation of participating entities, creating an effective environment for sharing and disseminating knowledge, optimizing business processes and streamlining the subject of the innovation process. The article presents the outputs of the project, the aim of which is to analyze the mutual cooperation of selected entities in reducing the cost of developing innovative technology of the electrolysis process at work in the Russian Federation through an association of entities mentioned hereunder

With a growing number of negative environmental burdens, several countries have increasingly begun to address the issue of environmental protection through a number of measures. Such measures include higher spending on public health, conservation of natural resources, less emission to the air, efficiency of waste sorting, reduction of water pollution, and groundwater. The contribution is based on the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) values to perform a cluster analysis of selected countries -especially OECD (organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries. The database needed for analysis is the EPI indicator for the years for 2008 to 2018. The result will be clusters that will include countries with similar results of the EPI indicators for the reference period. It will be important for us to track the position of the Slovak Republic in this analysis.

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