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Has Innovation Policy an Influence on Innovation ?

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The main aim of the paper is to analyze interdependencies between public innovation policy and technological innovation in Poland in 1989-2001. The following problems are presented: a general picture of innovativeness in the Polish economy, total expenditures on R&D in 1989-2001, changes in public innovation policy (in a form of survey of all major government documents concerning science and technology), interdependencies in the analyzed area, and recommendations towards the policy.
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The paper briefly characterizes the results of the European surveys for 2004 on innovation performance and innovation policy with a special view on the position of Slovakia. Slovakia ranks among the five EU-25 countries with the lowest innovation performance. It lags behind mainly in the size of R&D expenditures, in share of the tertiary educated population, in the innovation activity and the patenting activity, which is also minimal. The essential reason of insufficient innovativeness of the Slovak economy results from the weak support for innovation activities on the side of economic policy. Since 2005 an eminent public interest in the given area has been declared, therefore a gradual improvement in innovation performance can be expected.
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This paper explores various aspects of working out and implementing development policies based on clusters (cluster-based policies – CBPs). The clusters are a recognized tool that can be employed for increasing competitiveness of enterprises and the whole regions as well. However, one should remember that there is no such thing as one, proven and universal model of improving competitiveness of economies through stimulation of clustering processes. Therefore, continuous monitoring of emerging cluster initiatives as well as evaluation and, if needed, adjustment of adopted cluster-based policies with active participation of regional authorities is crucial to ensure lasting growth of competitiveness both particular enterprises and the national economy as a whole.
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This paper analyses impacts of the Structural Funds implementation on fostering Research Technological Development Innovation (RTDI) in Slovakia. It explores absorption of the RTDI investments from the the Structural Funds in different types of Slovak regions and analyses it via in-depth interviews with the experts on RTDI policies and professionals involved in implementation of the Structural Funds in Slovakia. Concluding section summarises findings from the statistical data and interviews, and discusses policy options for implementation of the Structural Funds in planning period of 2007 - 2013.
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The purpose of this article is to describe and assess the policy support of innovation in Finland. The study presents entities that create innovation in Finland and form a sphere of innovation in that country. The article presents organizations that actively promote the scientific cooperation with business practice and programs that serve to strengthen this cooperation.
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This paper explores some conceptual issues of the regional innovations, which are the essential topics in innovation policy assessment. After review of the theoretical approaches to the innovations and regional development, it turns to empirical evidence on regional disparities in wealth and innovativeness in the EU-member countries. It further analyses the approaches to the regional policies aimed at fostering innovation in private sector and considers the potential data sources for a policy evaluation.
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The article focuses on the concept of clusters as innovative industrial structures and their role in the European Union economic policy. Firstly, it considers different economic benefits from clustering for enterprises as well as for regional and national economy. Secondly, it focuses on modern processes of internationalization of clusters, proving that after regional networking among local units it is time to generate interregional cooperation links and trans-border networks of clusters. Thirdly, it presents the place of the concept of clusters in the EU policy, as shown in different documents, such as the Strategy “Europe 2020”. Particular attention is paid to European programmes and actions aiming at stimulation of transnational cooperation of cluster initiatives which may influence innovativeness and competitiveness of the economy by enhancing technology transfer, diffusion of innovation and greater human capital development and mobility. Cluster structures correspond to an observable fact of fragmentation of knowledge and capital that make efficient innovative economic activity dependent not only on the internal resources of the organisation, but primarily on the combination of knowledge and skills of different actors, institutions, industries and fields of science, also above national borders (technoglobalism). Therefore, the concept of cluster falls in line with modern generation of models of innovation process and innovation policy, emphasising the role of cooperation among enterprises and between enterprises and scientific bodies. Hence, they may play an important role in generating and accelerating innovation processes and act as growth poles for regional, national and European economy.
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What types of market cooperation are essential for developing innovations? Is collaboration with other enterprises, clients or competitors worth it? Actual research and public debate reveal the range of the issue, whereas the subject of policies motivating private entities to create innovations is key for the national and international programs for boosting innovativeness of economies. The aim of the paper is to review the sphere of relevance of different types of market collaboration for innovativeness and to verify as well as compare their importance in European countries empirically, by applying econometric techniques. The results suggest the positive effect of cooperation on various kinds of innovation activities.
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The aim of the paper is to discuss the issue of innovation from the perspective of relevant sociological interpretative frameworks. The discussion starts with an assessment of evolutionary and institutional economic studies of innovation, which have contributed to a better understanding of the role of institutional and social factors in the formation of innovation resources and the performance of (innovating) firms and (innovating) nation states. The concepts of a national innovation system (Nelson), the learning firm (Lundvall) and the social system of production (Hollingsworth) are discussed to explain this contribution in more detail. They indicate a set of socio-cultural factors and circumstances that can be identified not only as implications of the techno-economic power of innovation but also as the autonomous factors that shape the performance of innovating actors. The EU Lisbon strategy is faced with a similar challenge: to balance the issue of competitiveness with environmental issues and social cohesion. The current debate over fulfilling its goals (the Kok report) offers good arguments as to how techno-economic and socio-cultural resources of innovation could be theorised and governed. In this article, selected methodological frameworks and databases (EIS 2005, EXIS) are applied in an analysis of the social forms and structures of national innovation systems. The final discussion refers both to the relevant concepts (the learning economy, knowledge societies, reflexive modernisation) and the analytical data in order to suggest a concept of innovation, which understands both economic and social factors to be productive resources of current innovation performance. The suggested interpretative framework is used to assess the structural dependencies and challenges of the innovation system in the Czech Republic.
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