Smart Growth as a Tool for Regional Convergence: Evidence from Latgale Region of Latvia

Jermolajeva, Elita; Rivža, Baiba; Aļeksejeva, Ludmila; Šipilova, Viktorija; Ostrovska, Inta

doi:10.14254/2071-789x.2017/10-4/16

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“…Baldwin and Johnson (1999) suggested that faster-growing companies are more innovative than slower-growing companies. Jermolajeva et al (2017) showed smart growth as a tool for regional convergence based on the Baltic countries. Some studies of sources and determinants of innovation, for instance Cooke, Uranga, and Etxebarria (1997);van Hemert et al (2013), used an 'integrated approach' to study innovative SMEs.…”

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Regional Innovation System in the Podkarpackie against selected Polish and EU regions

Lewandowska¹,

Švihlíková²

2020

Journal of International Studies

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Innovation and innovativeness should be seen as a vast and internally complex set of measures carried out to improve management efficiency, build strong competitive positions and obtain economic benefits from enterprises, national economies and societies. A possibility of achieving these benefits is the category of competitiveness, hence, relative position of a region is measured using various indicators. The aim of the study is to analyze the level of the selected RIS indicators of the Podkarpackie against selected EU regions. The study will make it possible to understand in which area Podkarpackie performs better and in which worse? The analysis is carried out at the regional level NUTS 2. The most important approach in which quantitative indicators have been used comprehensively is EIS, which makes it possible to compare the Podkarpackie with the selected regions of Poland and the EU. Seven regions were selected for our analysis: 1 in Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom, Czech Republic and 3 in Poland. When it comes to innovativeness, the Podkarpackie region is a Moderate Innovator. The results of our research show that the relative strengths in the regional innovation system are design applications, sales new-tomarket/firm innovations, R&D expenditures business sector, non-R&D innovation expenditures, and tertiary education. Relative weaknesses are: marketing or organizational innovations, and also life-long learning.

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Regional Innovation System in the Podkarpackie against selected Polish and EU regions

Lewandowska¹,

Švihlíková²

2020

Journal of International Studies

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“…Six statistical regions are established in Latvia: Riga, Pieriga, Vidzeme, Kurzeme, Zemgale and Latgale (Par statistiskajiem reģioniem, 2018). Across the regions of Latvia there can be still observed considerable socioeceonomic disparities with the monocentric capital city-oriented development, distribution of people and economic activities (Jermolajeva et al, 2017).…”

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Smart specialisation development in Latvia

Gemma¹,

Vitolina²

2018

Research for Rural Development

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Based on data on the number of newly established enterprises and the total number of enterprises, the authors analysed whether and what changes occurred in the industries of the national economy that have high transfer potential in relation to smart specialisation implementation in the country, broken down by region, thereby identifying the RIS3 specialisation field on which the focus has to be placed and to which attention has to be drawn. The aim of the research is to identify the entrepreneurship development in RIS3 specialisation fields broken down by region and economic development according to the RIS3 specialisation fields. The research has found that the number of enterprises in the industries having high transfer potential in relation to RIS3 as a percentage of the total number of enterprises was slightly above 50%; the regional breakdown of the enterprises revealed that two thirds were located in the regions of Riga and Pieriga, and that ICT was the most significant RIS3 specialisation. In the post-crisis period, the number of newly established enterprises increased at the highest rate in 2011, exceeding the rate of the previous year more than twofold , whereas in the next two years the rate decreased below the 2009 level.

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“…Later it penetrated many other spheres of socioeconomic activity especially on the regional level. There are different challenges in the process of smart specialisation: theoretical background which includes new terminology and comprehension of terms among scientists; information on national and municipal institutions; new competences of entrepreneurs and society as a whole [14], which became the subjects of modern studies. The mechanism of S3 impact on the competitiveness both of business entities and the whole economy and on the regional development is performed through increase in degree of product innovativeness [13; 16].…”

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Implementation of Smart Specialisation for Regional Industrial Development

Sychevskyi¹,

Deineko²,

Кушніренко³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the III International Scientific Congress Society of Ambient Intelligence 2020 (ISC-SAI 2020)

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Smart specialisation is seen as a new opportunity for the European regions and the whole economies development. In Ukraine smart specialisation is only being mastered according to the results of Ukrainian industrial enterprises survey held in 2019 by authors. The purpose of the research is the identification of the role, opportunities and perspectives of smart specialisation implementation in regions for Ukrainian industrial growth with the help of the industry experts' survey. The objectives of the research were: to consider the foreign experience in smart specialisation strategies implementation and its effects of industrial development; to analyze the findings of the survey of industry's experts; to make recommendations for smart specialization strategies implementation in Ukraine. The methodology included the questioning of 50 representatives of manufacturing (light, pharamceutical and food industries) and of related government bodies on the smart specialisation perspectives for the industrial potential development and its statistical analysis. The key finding of the research is that representatives of Ukrainian industry though perceive the importance of this tool face many obstacles in its implementation: difficult financial situation, lack of public support, lack of skilled personnel and of information about existing smart technologies. Considering research results the solutions of the identified problems were proposed which included the establishing an effective dialogue between central and local authorities, national producers and academic institutions; development of new areas of activity through targeted forms of interregional cooperation; development and implementation of the industrial and financial policy tools to stimulate R&D and S3 implementation on a regional level.

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Smart Growth as a Tool for Regional Convergence: Evidence from Latgale Region of Latvia

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

Regional Innovation System in the Podkarpackie against selected Polish and EU regions

Regional Innovation System in the Podkarpackie against selected Polish and EU regions

Smart specialisation development in Latvia

Implementation of Smart Specialisation for Regional Industrial Development

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