Analysis of the Innovative Climate in the Private and the Public Sector in Slovenia

The paper presents empirical research on innovative climate in theprivate and public sectors in Slovenia based on West’s model and theshortened questionnaire developed by Kivimaki and Elovanio. The resultsreveal that in our case the model is more three-factor than theoriginal four-factor model, very likely because of the non-random sample.Results also show that there are no statistically significant differencesin innovative climate between the private and public sector, norbetween companies with less and companies with more than 250 employees.Significant differences in innovative climate are indicatorsjust regarding the satisfaction with work and partially regarding employees’type of work.