The purpose of this article is to determine the possibility of using the experience of European countries in the development of the creative industry as a driving force for economic growth for the economies in transition. The authors studied the concept of the creative industry, existing models of classification of sub-sectors of the creative economy. The article analyses data on the world trends in the development of the creative industry and features of these processes in the economies in transition. Based on the results obtained, the key triggers that should be influenced by government regulation in economies in transition are: ensuring access to finance, ensuring an effective system of education at all levels to ensure the availability of skilled labour and literacy consumers of creative products, availability of high-quality infrastructure and regulatory system. Proceeding from this, recommendations for the development of creative industry in the economies in transition structured in terms of the key stakeholders: government, local government (regions and cities), higher educational institutions, creative industry, and other business representatives.
This article generalizes arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion regarding the determination of the influence of illegal economic activity and expansion of the shadow economy on innovative country development. The systematization of the scientific works on the above problems proves that there is no one no complexity and unity in the above-mentioned scientific findings, which, in turn, demonstrates the necessity of further theoretical and empirical search in this sphere. Thus, it was developed a scientific hypothesis about the negative influence of the shadow economy on innovative country development. In order to test this hypothesis it was developed a scientific and methodological approach that consists of several stages: 1) correlation analysis in order to eliminate multicollinearity problem between control variables; 2) analysis of dataset descriptive statistics; 3) running Hausman test in order to clarify specification of the regression model (fixed or random effects model); 4) realization of the panel data regression analysis for the whole country sample and separately for Ukraine, characteristics of its results. Technically all stages of the research are realized with the help of Stata 12/S.E. software. The country sample consists of 9 countries (Azerbaijan, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and Ukraine). Time horizon – 2008-2018. Running of the panel data regression analysis (model specification – with fixed effects) allow confirming research hypothesis for the whole country sample (an increase of shadow economy negatively affected innovative country development: an increase of shadow economy to GDP ratio in 1 % leads to the decrease of the Global Innovation Index in 0.5 points). However, it was not proved for Ukraine separately. It leads to the conclusion that innovative development in Ukraine does not highly dependent on the shadow economy scale because of more significant obstacles on the way to innovation adoption (institutional inefficiency, regulatory drawbacks, etc.). Keywords: innovative economic growth, innovative state management, panel data analysis, shadow economy.
In Ukraine, a fundamentally new landscape of threats to information security is now being formed, which is largely due to difficult geopolitical conditions, in particular, the exacerbation of information wars in the context of a military conflict with the Russian Federation, the growth of cyber threats and implemented cyberattacks, a low level of digital inclusion of the population, and the loss of innovative technological achievements. This requires not only a quick response to current threats, but also building the capacity to prevent them, in particular through the growth of digital inclusion. This will become the basis for countering information wars, stimulating economic growth, ensuring social stability, unity, cohesion and sustainability of communities and the country as a whole. The article examines approaches to understanding the concept of «information security of the country». Proceeding from the fact that it is based on the concept of «information threat», we investigate its essence and approaches to multidimensional classification. Information discrimination as a specific threat to the country's information security is being studied in depth. This is because it is a combination of the inaccessibility of ICTs and the lack of skills required to use them safely. To neutralize the negative impact of information discrimination, it is necessary to increase the level of digital inclusion of citizens and society, which implies their safe participation in all possible aspects of the functioning of the information society. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to form a long-term roadmap for the development of the country's intellectual capital, which requires significant investments in education and information skills based on the optimal trajectory of educational transformations that minimizes information threats. Educational institutions should be transformed into effective centres for the transfer of knowledge and technology for the growth of digital inclusion of citizens and communities in order to counter information threats and information wars, to ensure social stability, unity, cohesion and resilience of communities and the country as a whole.
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