Social Responsibility: Opportunities for Integral Assessment and Analysis of Connections with Business Innovation

The paper proposes an approach to the integrated assessment of social responsibility EU countries with a combination data from three international indices most relevant monitoring at macroeconomic level: Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index, Development Goals Index and Social Progress Index. Applying method taxonomic analysis on example index values for countries, we assessed differences leaders in ensuring responsibility. authors do not consider country-level only as consequence development responsible practices all levels. Taking into account that should be prerequisite expanding opportunities spheres, particular, business, conducted correlational relationship between indicator innovative business. As result, confirmed significant connections “Business sophistication” indicators (as part Innovation Index) share firms total SMEs (according OESD statistics). obtained results strengthen grounds considering important socially oriented concept, but also reliable basis business due created comfortable institutional environment development.