The Least Innovative Regions in Poland in the Process of Smart Specialisation

Czyżewska-Misztal, Dorota; Golejewska, Anna

doi:10.15290/ose.2016.05.83.08

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“…The Warmia and Mazury Province is a region with relatively weak socio-economic potential in both Poland and the European Union [87,88]. The level of information infrastructure there is low, but changes in the synthetic ICT index determined for the province in comparison with the national average indicate the occurrence of a catching-up effect [89].…”

Section: Characteristic Features Of Warmia and Mazury Contact Zonesmentioning

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Contact Zones in the Energy Transition: A Transdisciplinary Complex Problem

Jakimowicz

Rzeczkowski

2023

Energies

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The success of energy transition relies on what happens in the contact zone, the area between citizens and municipality governments, which still awaits more thorough research. This article employs the concept of the contact zone both as a theory describing processes of developing energy prosumerism on a local level, and as a research method which enables one to uncover phenomena that are critical to attaining climate objectives. The research field was the Warmia and Mazury Province in Poland, which is the region with the lowest socio-economic potential both in Poland and in the European Union. The analyzed contact zone was divided into two parts: the human administrative legal contact zone and the more-than-human energy contact zone. To describe the relationships occurring in these subzones, the authors used empirical data originating from a survey addressed to citizens living in the above province. The aim was to explore the respondents’ knowledge about current prosumption processes and the opportunities to implement them in the local government sector. Multiple correspondence analysis was used to analyze the data. The main findings were the low knowledge of citizens about prosumption, which was represented by a large number of the prosumption principles not indicated by the respondents, and—on the other hand—the evidence that local communities expect the implementation of digital prosumption, which they know from the market sector, in public administration. It was also demonstrated that the absence of citizens’ involvement in the energy transition is a consequence of two historic colonialisms, German and Russian, which had a huge influence on the emergence of an autocratic management style in the analyzed region. Comparison of the analyzed contact zones with two reference zones showed that grassroots movements in the province are initiated mainly by external factors of a nationwide character. In the Warmia and Mazury contact zones, civic initiatives are in the early stage of development, although they display all features of developed zones, such as autoethnographic gestures, transculturation, struggle, violence, and anti-conquest.

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Section: Characteristic Features Of Warmia and Mazury Contact Zonesmentioning

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Contact Zones in the Energy Transition: A Transdisciplinary Complex Problem

Jakimowicz

Rzeczkowski

2023

Energies

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“…The Warmia and Mazury Province is the subject of study. It is one of the least economically developed provinces in Poland [63,64]. Therefore, municipal authorities as the basic units of the local government have the obligation to support entrepreneurship in their subordinate areas.…”

Section: Principles Of Economic Development Of the Warmia And Mazury Provincementioning

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“…In the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, milling was the most important industry in the Polish economy [75] (pp. [63][64]. Wind and watermills were the first form of industrialization that appeared in Warmia and Mazury.…”

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The Impact of Public Administration Digitalization on the Decarbonization of the Economy

Jakimowicz

Rzeczkowski

2021

Energies

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According to wikinomics, the decarbonization of the economy it is not possible without the involvement of people’s creativity and ingenuity under the form of prosumption channeled into the public administration. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to transform the existing websites of municipal offices into participation platforms that would become the local growth poles concentrating the economic forces operating in a given area. As Adam Smith, the father of economics, noted, synchronization between the economic goals of people and the preferences of local authorities are the main factors of development and the lack of them can create the highest degree of chaos in the economy. Consequently, the research began with defining prosumption and determining the degree of cooperation between society and the public administration sector in the digital sphere. Correspondence analysis was used to analyze the data collected from a survey. The issue of the quality of websites of municipal public administration offices, which in the digital economy function as growth poles and development axes, was also discussed. It was observed that society is prepared to perform the role of prosumers in the public administration sector; however, the low quality of websites constrains full disclosure of society’s prosumer potential. Under these conditions, the best ways to decarbonize the local economy are: (1) acceleration of the digitization of municipal public administration; and (2) use of the already existing infrastructural growth poles and development axes. The first postulate is related to the improvement of the existing, and the construction of new, computer networks. The second point mainly concerns the achievements of molinology, which studies the existing and partially functional infrastructure of former watermills and the location of former windmills. It is a valuable clue that facilitates the location and construction of modern renewable energy sources. The subject of the research is the Warmia and Mazury Province, which includes 116 municipalities and is the fourth largest province in Poland.

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“…With this in mind, it is advisable to consider the issue of interregional co-operation in relation to joint R&D when developing and implementing smart specialisation. The experience of some Polish regions, by the way, testifies to the risks of simplifying and narrowing the priorities of smart specialisation to the areas of local companies' R&D [32].…”

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Foreign practices of smart specialisation and possibilities of its implementation in Ukraine

Gryga¹

2019

Economy and forecasting

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The paper is devoted to the issues of implementation of smart specialisation concept into the regional development policy of Ukraine. The relevance of the issue is related to the need of harmonization of the regional and innovation policies of Ukraine with the EU standards, on the one hand, and to forced incorporation of smart specialisation concept into the regional development strategies, on the other hand. The experience of the EU regions reveals certain peculiarities of the implementation of smart specialisation in regions with low institutional capacity, and therefore, their experience for Ukraine is the most useful. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to identify specific features of the implementation of smart specialisation in countries and regions with low institutional capacity and to provide recommendations for its implementation in Ukraine. Thus, the paper studies prerequisites for the emergence of smart specialisation in the EU, which is related to shortcomings in development and implementation of regional innovation strategies that did not sufficiently considered needs of the regions, or were focused on traditional sectors of industry. The peculiarities of the implementation of smart specialisation in countries/regions with low institutional capacity are also identified. They are related to strong focus of strategies on building links between innovation development actors, but insufficient attention was paid to the final stages of the innovation process. It is shown that such countries and regions need to make greater efforts in the implementation of smart specialisation through a substantial modification of the existing processes or initiating new processes in the domains of innovation and regional development policy making. Since the choice of policy tools is a serious problem for regions and countries with low institutional capacity, the paper provides a number of recommendations from European experts on this issue. In particular, it concerns the use of mini-mixes aimed at coping with a specific challenge or at developing a certain smart priority through the synergy / complex actions of various types of policy instruments (regulation, fiscal incentives, grants, human development and mobility). Considering the experience gained in the EU regions, some policy recommendations on the implementation of smart specialisation concept in Ukraine were developed. The recommendations are aimed at minimizing the risk of distortion of the smart specialisation concept and at the development of more effective action plans, in particular through broader involvement of European experts in the process of the implementation of smart specialisation in Ukraine on national and regional levels.

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The Least Innovative Regions in Poland in the Process of Smart Specialisation

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Contact Zones in the Energy Transition: A Transdisciplinary Complex Problem

Contact Zones in the Energy Transition: A Transdisciplinary Complex Problem

The Impact of Public Administration Digitalization on the Decarbonization of the Economy

Foreign practices of smart specialisation and possibilities of its implementation in Ukraine

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