Transforming innovation models in European regions: Breaking out of path dependency and growing faster?

• Authors: Korneliusz Pylak , Elżbieta Wojnicka-Sycz

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to verify whether a change in innovation model by less-developed regions may speed up development processes and if innovativeness plays crucial role in these processes. Cluster analysis conducted for the years 1994-2014 showed that the majority of lessdeveloped regions in 1994-2000 that experienced significant growth by 2011-2014 changed their innovation models. Logit regression confirmed that innovation factors play a crucial role in high growth rates. The findings suggest that less-developed regions can break out of path dependency by increasing their shares of high-tech industries and employment in science and technology and boosting technology transfer, which usually involves changing and improving their innovation models.

Keywords

EN

Regional development; development path; path dependency; less; developed region; innovation model; innovativeness

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 51-59

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Korneliusz Pylak

• Department of Economics and Management of Economy, Faculty of Management, Lublin University of Technology, Poland

author

Elżbieta Wojnicka-Sycz

• Department of Management, Institute of Organization and Management, Gdansk University
• Department of Urban Design and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/mgrsd-2017-0006

Biblioteka Nauki

2046895