Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.21857/90836c7exy
Smart Specialization and Local Development: Effects on Scientific and Innovation Policy in the Period 2009–2019
Jadranka Švarc
orcid.org/0000-0003-1702-3674
; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Jasminka Lažnjak
orcid.org/0000-0002-6699-9676
; Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The aim of this paper is to critically analyze the evolution of development paradigms to explain the changes in the concept of innovation and innovation policy that have occurred in the last ten years, and how these changes affect the development model of the County of Bjelovar -Bilogora (BBC), but also of Croatia as a whole. The research starts from the thesis that the last decade has witnessed the rise of a new development paradigm based on the concept of entrepreneurial economy in which the dynamics of entrepreneurship, flexibility and heterogeneity of ideas play a key role in economic development. The change in the development paradigm was preceded by a weakening of the concept of knowledge economy, and a shift from research-based innovation and high technology to entrepreneurial innovation as factors for economic growth and competitiveness. Less developed regions, such as BBC, which hardly compete in the field of high technology and technological innovation, have thus acquired a new development paradigm in which economic progress depends on the dynamics of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial innovation. The development of a new innovation paradigm in Croatia has been largely supported by the European Cohesion Policy, i.e. the Smart specialization strategy that sees the development of science and technological progress mainly in the context of regional development and within strengthening the local entrepreneurial competences. The research finds that BBC should ground its development on an entrepreneurial ecosystem with funding from the European Structural Funds, the basis of which the BBC in the past five years has made significant economic progress. The research is based on a critical conceptual analysis and used a qualitative methodology, mostly qualitative thematic analysis.
Ključne riječi
Bjelovar-Bilogora County; Entrepreneurial Ecosystem; Innovation Policy; Smart Specialization Strategy; Innovation system
Hrčak ID:
248414
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.11.2020.
Posjeta: 987 *