Regional Innovation Governance in the Context of European Integration and Multi-level Governance Challenges. A Case Study of North-West Region of Romania

Dodescu, Anca; Chirilă, Lavinia Florentina

doi:10.1016/s2212-5671(12)00293-6

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“…In addition to that, certain traditional EU member states who honored their legal obligations under the 2015 CE package, claim that Romania has an unfair economical competitive advantage. Finally, the multi-level governance system required by the CE, "top-down" and "bottom-up" [10], is almost unfunctional in Romania, especially at regional level, and the influence of the private economic sector exists only at the lower levels of government [11][12][13]. From the business environment perspective, there are currently no examples of economic agglomerations in Romania where the CE best practices have been implemented [14] nor a proper organizational culture prepared to adopt those principles [15,16].…”

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An Exploration of Circular Economy Practices and Performance Among Romanian Producers

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Economic growth is the mandate of the global economy and with our planet’s population poised to reach 10 billion people, economists are searching for sustainable economic growth approaches that do not increase raw materials consumption nor deplete and damage our environment. This mandate is the heart of the Circular Economy (CE), a challenge to theoreticians and practitioners alike to continue global economic growth, but with fewer resources and protective methods for our environment. The European Union (EU) economies were early adopters of CE and are now demanding similar adoptions from its recently integrated members from the East. Romania is one of the laggard states in this transition, given its heritage and lack of economic sophistication. Our paper identifies the practices and performance of Romanian producers regarding the implementation of the CE principles, so future recommendations can be formulated. In surveying the Romanian firms, we applied a cluster analysis based on their level of green-oriented supply chain cooperation (GSCC) practices. The respondents were grouped into two clusters: “low green-oriented supply chain cooperation (GSCC) scorers” and “high green-oriented supply chain cooperation (GSCC) scorers’. The results suggest that cluster membership partially influence CE practices and fully influence CE-targeted performance.

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“…In this context, the present paper examines students' entrepreneurial intention as result of formal and entrepreneurship education in the specific economic context of Bihor County, Romania. Our analysis is part of a larger research into inclusive entrepreneurship in Romania as a driver of regional development [16], [17] and related with our previous research about entrepreneurship education [18], [19].…”

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A Local Perspective About Students’ Entrepreneurship. Evidence From Romania

Dodescu¹,

Cohut²,

Afrodita³

2018

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The paper is part of a larger research into inclusive entrepreneurship in Romania as a driver of local development. In this context, this paper focuses on youth entrepreneurship issues, specifically students' entrepreneurship and examines the push and pull factors of entrepreneurial intention of students in Romania. Starting from the analysis of the literature on the formal and entrepreneurship education as determinants of youth entrepreneurship, the paper presents the Bihor County of Romania context regarding employment, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education and the results of a quantitative research based on a questionnaire applied to a group of 136 students from the University of Oradea, Romania. The research findings outline a local perspective about the motivations and obstacles that influence the entrepreneurial intentions of students and students' perception regarding university courses and services able to stimulate their entrepreneurial potential. The paper ends with recommendations for improving the formal and informal entrepreneurial education opportunities, services and facilities offered by the University of Oradea according with local needs in order to encourage students' entrepreneurship and to increase the number of graduates who consider starting a business and self-employment in the field of graduate studies as a viable option for insertion into the labour market.

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“…Several valuable proposals have been concluded while analyzing an innovative policy that takes into account smart specializations for emerging regions in Poland (Kamrowska-Zaluska and Soltys, 2016). Similar studies, in Europe (Thalassinos et al, 2015) and in other countries, were presented the process of identifying smart specializations for Romania (Sandu, 2012;Dodescu and Chirilă, 2012), for Lithuania (Paliokaitė, Martinaitis and Sarpong, 2016) and for Slovakia (Borseková, Vaňová and Vitálišová, 2017). It should also be noted the interesting studies conducted on the role of smart specialization in less-developed countries (Krammer, 2017), as well as the research on smart specialization policies as a support for the sustainable development policy in the face of new global challenges (Rusu, 2013).…”

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Specialization Integrated Strategy of Innovations: Effective Model for Emerging Regional Economy Development?

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Mach²,

Szewczuk-Stępień³

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Purpose: The purpose of our work is to propose a strategic model of smart specialization identification around the concept of regional knowledge and cognitive transfer (Double Helix Matrix, DHM). Design/Methodology/Approach: While operationalization of smart specialization-oriented policy is still rather limited because of the lack of agreed development policy tools, we proposed the DHM model developed in order to provide the implementation of regional smart specialization oriented strategy. The model has been statistically verified by multidimensional comparative analysis on the example of a chosen weak innovative emerging region in Poland (Opolskie). Findings: The proposed methodology let us to find the need of redefining the smart specialization concept as a part of regional innovation strategy. Practical Implications: The new approach to the regional innovation policy has been proposed.. The findings have been used to construct the regional policy directives for potential smart specializations development within 2027 perspective. Originality/Value: The new model to conduct regional innovation strategy for smart specialization has been proposed and verified on the example of the weak innovation region.

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Regional Innovation Governance in the Context of European Integration and Multi-level Governance Challenges. A Case Study of North-West Region of Romania

Cited by 10 publications

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An Exploration of Circular Economy Practices and Performance Among Romanian Producers

An Exploration of Circular Economy Practices and Performance Among Romanian Producers

A Local Perspective About Students’ Entrepreneurship. Evidence From Romania

Specialization Integrated Strategy of Innovations: Effective Model for Emerging Regional Economy Development?

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