Selected Meso-Economic Consequences of the Changing Number of Students in Academic Towns and Cities (A Case Study of Poland)

Rokita-Poskart, Diana; Mach, Łukasz

doi:10.3390/su11071901

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“…A number of theoretical and empirical studies deal with determinants of innovation performance [6,18,19]. Most of them point to the importance of both endogenous and exogenous determinants in enhancing competitiveness of firms, regions, and countries [20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. Particularly, a considerable amount of research has been devoted to investigating how Research and Development (R&D) expenditures might have an impact on firms' innovation activities [16,17].…”

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Do Human Resources and the Research System Affect Firms’ Innovation Activities? Results from Poland and the Czech Republic

Zygmunt

2020

Sustainability

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Strong relationships between innovation of firms and sustainable development of regions and countries have priority in issues related to firms’ innovation performance. In this paper, particular emphasis is given to Poland and the Czech Republic as countries with similar innovation performance. Specifically, it seems interesting to identify the extent to which human resources and the research system in these countries matter in firms’ innovation activities. Thus, the aim of the paper is to test whether human resources and the research system affect Polish and Czech firms’ innovation activities. The data were sourced from the European Innovation Scoreboard (2018, 2019) for the period of 2010–2016. A set of variables concerning human resources and the research system were employed. The hypotheses were tested with the Cobb–Douglas function. This paper contributes to the existing literature by adding to studies that seek to identify determinants of firms’ innovation activities. The findings indicate the statistical significance of such a variable related with human resources, as lifelong learning for innovation activities of firms from Poland and such a variable connected with the research system, as the top 10% most cited publications on Czech firms’ innovation activities. The paper has practical and policy implications. There is a need, among others, to strengthen knowledge diffusion processes between firms and universities, research organisations, and institutional environments in order to improve innovation activities of firms.

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Do Human Resources and the Research System Affect Firms’ Innovation Activities? Results from Poland and the Czech Republic

Zygmunt

2020

Sustainability

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“…The Opole region is ref erred to as migrational ( Heffner & Solga, 2013: 43) -characterised by a long tradition of departures (usually foreign ones), with their accompanying social, demographic and economic consequences (Heffner & Solga, 2017). The Opole Province has become a kind of 'laboratory' for the study of migration processes, in particular emigration -outside (Heffner & Solga, 2016;Solga, 2017) and inside the country (rokita-Poskart, 2018;rokita-Poskart, Mach 2019). This is a region with an aging population, which will result in staff shortages (Heffner, Klemens & Solga, 2019).…”

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Costs and benefits resulting from employing foreigners as perceived from the labour market segments perspective (based on the data from Opolskie Voivodeship in Poland)

Kubiciel‐Lodzińska¹,

Maj²,

Widera³

2020

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The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the employment costs and advantages of employing a foreign labour force. The analysis was made based on the dual labour market theory, whereas employers were divided into employers of foreigners in occupations from the primary and secondary labour market.The analysis was based on 263 semi-structured interviews with employers from the Opolskie Voivodeship (Poland). The respondents were contacted in several ways. Firstly, the CAWI (Computer-Assisted Web Interview) and then PAPI (Paper & Pen Personal Interview) methods were used. The study showed that there is a significant statistical relationship between the labour market segment in which an employer hires a foreign employee, and the advantages gained by the employer. On the other hand, the study demonstrated no statistical relations between the labour market segment and the barriers for employing foreigners and their evaluation made by employers.

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“…However, the scale of COVID‐related abandonment of student cities has not been precisely estimated yet. Together with the prior voices warning about the negative impacts of the decline of student populations on cities (Rokita‐Poskart & Mach, 2019 ), the current pandemic raises an important question about the short‐ and long‐term resilience of the ‘student city’ as an urban growth formula. Therefore, we have constructed a spatio‐temporal analytical framework to address these issues.…”

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Is the ‘student city’ lost? The rhythms of Lodz as a consumption‐oriented student city through the COVID‐19 pandemic lens

Zasina

Nowakowska

2022

Population Space and Place

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The COVID‐19 pandemic calls into question the hosting of students as an urban growth formula after the spread of online education. Therefore, we look at Lodz, Poland, to understand how student cities operate during the pandemic and gain insights into their futures. We unfold the prepandemic and intrapandemic rhythms of students' presence and activities in Lodz's time‐space and their attitudes toward the postpandemic future. We show that the pandemic spurred many students to escape from Lodz and changed the activities of those staying in the city by limiting their frequencies and locations. However, we expect students to repopulate Lodz, although its postpandemic existence might evolve through further rhythm changes. Moreover, it will depend not only on the students' demand for higher education per se but also for collective consumption opportunities. Therefore, the pandemic itself does not seem to render the idea of a ‘student city’ obsolete in the long term.

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Selected Meso-Economic Consequences of the Changing Number of Students in Academic Towns and Cities (A Case Study of Poland)

Cited by 7 publications

References 31 publications

Do Human Resources and the Research System Affect Firms’ Innovation Activities? Results from Poland and the Czech Republic

Do Human Resources and the Research System Affect Firms’ Innovation Activities? Results from Poland and the Czech Republic

Costs and benefits resulting from employing foreigners as perceived from the labour market segments perspective (based on the data from Opolskie Voivodeship in Poland)

Is the ‘student city’ lost? The rhythms of Lodz as a consumption‐oriented student city through the COVID‐19 pandemic lens

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