Measuring innovation and institution: the creative economy index

Żelazny, Rafał; Pietrucha, Jacek

doi:10.24136/eq.v12i1.3

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“…The composite indicators are very convenient tools as they: (i) summarise multidimensional realities, (ii) are easier to interpret than a set of many separate indicators, (iii) reduce the visible size of a set of indicators without dropping the underlying information base, (iv) enable users to compare complex dimensions effectively (OECD JRC, 2008;Santos, Santos, 2014). Thus a growing interest in composite indicators should not be surprising as they may be applied in many different fields: innovation (Żelazny, Pietrucha, 2017;Balcerzak, Pietrzak, 2017a), health care system performance (Łyszczarz, 2016), real estate markets analysis (Małkowska, Głuszak, 2016) countries' competitiveness (Kruk, Waśniewska, 2017), socioeconomic development (Bartkowiak-Bakun, 2017), quality of institutions (Balcerzak, Pietrzak, 2017b), sustainable development , standard of living (Kuc, 2017) and many others. However, one has to be aware of the fact that they are not free of defects: (i) may be disused to support a desired policy, (ii) may disguise serious falling in some dimensions if a construction process is not transparent, (iii) are sensitive to normalization, aggregation and weighting methods, (iv) a selection of indicators and their weights may be subjective (OECD JRC, 2008;Ravallion, 2010, Paroulo, Saisana, Saltelli, 2013Santos, Santos, 2014).…”

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Is the Regional Divergence a Price for the International Convergence? The Case of the Visegrad Group

Kuc‐Czarnecka¹

2017

JOC

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The main goal of this article is to verify whether the Visegrad Group countries are achieving social convergence at national level at the expense of internal divergence. For this purpose, the existence of social beta-, sigma-and gamma-convergence at national and regional level was tested. The author of this article decided to tackle the convergence problem since there is a high risk that countries are trying to catch up at international level even at the expense of increasing internal differences. This trade off could be framed as undesirable from a cohesion policy point of view. Achieving convergence is not only important for inhabitants' standard of living but for regions' and countries' competitiveness as well. In today's turbulent and globalised world, regions must become more resilient and competitive, and this cannot be done without adequate human capital. Dealing with present unsustainable trends of many kinds, regions are forced to create the best living conditions in order to avoid the brain drain. In this article, a spatial taxonomy measure of development (Pietrzak, 2016) was used to compare the Visegrad Group countries performance with respect to their internal cohesion in the period of 2004-2014. It seems that the inclusion of spatial relationships is justified because nowadays, no region develops in isolation. Therefore, the situation in each region is influenced by neighbourhood.

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Is the Regional Divergence a Price for the International Convergence? The Case of the Visegrad Group

Kuc‐Czarnecka¹

2017

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“…All remaining errors are the sole responsibility of the author. Source: Author's elaboration based on Eurostat data (2017) and (Żelazny and Pietrucha, 2017). Table 4a Estimation of panel regressions with fixed effects.…”

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Innovations and income inequalities – a comparative study

Włodarczyk

2017

Journal of International Studies

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Abstract. Due to the complexity of relationships between innovations and income inequalities, the choice of measures to be taken in the course of their interaction is very important. This paper presents a regression analysis based on the selected measures of innovativeness (gross domestic expenditure on R&D, number of patent applications, the Creative Economy Index), income inequalities (Gini coefficient, top 3% and top 1% shares of national equalized income) and various control variables retrieved mostly from the Eurostat Database for 30 countries (European Union countries, Iceland, Norway) for the study period of 2005-2014. It has been found that higher gross domestic expenditure on R&D as a percentage of GDP tends to increase inequalities, while higher number of patent applications and higher value of the Creative Economy Index have the opposite effect. Besides, top income inequality is partly driven by different factors than broader measures of income inequalities.

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“…New technologies that are starting to emerge and dominate the world markets require constantly adapting and enhancing one's skills and qualifications Chmielewska & Horváthová 2016;Ehrenberger et al, 2015;Grenčiková et al, 2017;Hilkevics & Hilkevica, 2017, Lisin et al, 2017Radwan & Sakr, 2017;Mačerinskienė & Aleknavičiūtė, 2017;Shpak et al, 2017;Strielkowski, 2017;Żelazny & Pietrucha, 2017;Zemlickiene et al, 2017).…”

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Sustainable economic growth and innovative development of educational systems

Tvaronavičienė¹,

Tarkhanova²,

Durglishvili³

2018

Journal of International Studies

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Abstract. This paper is focused on the issue how educational systems might increase the economic, innovative and business potential of the regional centres and contribute to the sustainable economic development. Rapidly growing economies are marked by social fragmentation and economic divisions but have the potential to become the drivers for shrinking social divisions and creating opportunities for all the citizens. Carefully designed educational policies becomes a solution for most of the economic and social problems by offering formal and non-formal educational activities. Policy-makers in the educational realm learn to engage with the realities of social exclusion, political alienation, and economic marginalization -through both public policy and private initiatives. Educational initiatives and policies across might include carefully orchestrated public policies, spending the money from the structural funds all aimed at stabilizing communities and establishing cooperation and integration, non-formal educational initiatives to reduce marginalization, or expansion of the formal school system aimed at raising aspirations.

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Measuring innovation and institution: the creative economy index

Cited by 51 publications

References 35 publications

Is the Regional Divergence a Price for the International Convergence? The Case of the Visegrad Group

Is the Regional Divergence a Price for the International Convergence? The Case of the Visegrad Group

Innovations and income inequalities – a comparative study

Sustainable economic growth and innovative development of educational systems

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