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This article deals with innovations and their implementation in the Czech forestry. The situation was analysed using a questionnaire; we got the survey data from 132 face-to-face questioned respondents. In the last three years 27% of respondents implemented at least one innovation. The main positive factors for implementation of innovations were EU subsidies and co-operation with suppliers, customers and services. The most negative effect on implementation of innovations had lack of own financial resources and information on possible new products and services as well as high introduction costs. In the paper, there are also presented some differences in results in comparison with the similar survey carried out in 2001. The most important change concerns the type of implemented innovation, where in 2001 the biggest share of innovation type belonged to technological or organisational innovation, while according to current research it belongs to new products.