Slovenian Companies and Environmental aspects of Business

V monografiji smo najprej analizirali vse gospodarske družbe in samostojne podjetnike v Sloveniji leta 2013, nato pa smo za leto 2011 primerjali ključne podatke za podjetja EU-28 in Slovenije v nefinančnem sektorju gospodarstva (to so dejavnosti industrije, trgovine in storitev). V Sloveniji je bilo leta 2013 61.312 gospodarskih družb (skoraj 3 % več kot leto prej) in 69.626 samostojnih podjetnikov, to je skupaj 130.938 podjetij, ki so zaposlovala skoraj 522.000 ljudi. Več kot četrtina podjetij v nefinančnem sektorju EU-28 leta 2011 je bilo aktivnih v dejavnosti G: Trgovinavzdrževanje in popravila motornih vozil. Drugi del monografije proučuje okoljske vidike poslovanja podjetij. Razvijanje inovacij v najširšem smislu je zmeraj povezano s podjetniškimi aktivnostmi, zato sta to tesno povezana koncepta. V prispevku opozarjamo na različne vidike in pojavne oblike obeh konceptov ter na njuno povezanost. Prikazujemo stanje okoljskega podjetništva in okoljskih inovacij ter njune značilnosti v Sloveniji in primerjalno z evropskimi državami.In this monograph, we first analysed all the companies and entrepreneurs in Slovenia in 2013 and then, for 2011, we compared the critical data for companies from EU-28 and Slovenia in the non-financial business sector (activities of industry, trade and services). In Slovenia in 2013, 61,312 companies (almost 3% more than in the previous year) and 69,626 entrepreneurs, —totalling 130,938 enterprises— employed almost 522,000 people. More than one fourth of enterprises in the non-financial business economy in EU-28 in 2011 operated in distributive trades (motor trades, wholesale trade and retail trade). The second part of the monograph analyses environmental aspects of business operations. The development of innovation in its broadest sense is always associated with entrepreneurial activitiestherefore, these are closely related concepts. In this chapter, we expose the variety of different aspects and manifestations of both concepts and their interconnections. We provide information on the state of environmental entrepreneurship and eco-innovation as well as their characteristics in Slovenia compared with other European countries