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- Title
INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITHUANIA'S REGIONS: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH.
- Authors
Mineikaitė, Eglė
- Abstract
Innovations and innovative activities are becoming the most important feature of a country or region development. For this reason a great amount of literature highlights this topic. There are a lot of documents, strategies and programs signed which try to enhance business competitiveness and productivity. Formation of regional policy should make that this development will ensure a high quality of life throughout the country. Economic growth of countries in encouraging to look for more efficiently, which is directly related with innovative entities. The significance of innovations is the focus of EU regional policy. Although the innovation phenomenon is widely analyzed, consistent and specified concept is not formulated. Thus, this paper will primarily discuss the diversity of innovation concept and interface with the regional concept. Another part of the work aims to reveal the determinants of the regional development influencing innovation activities by different author's approaches. The final section of this paper is to present adopted methodological matrix for innovativeness evaluation for regions in Lithuania. In Lithuania innovativeness is counted just on a country's level, no territorial importance is emphasised. Even though innovations are closely related with regional policy. So the main purpose of this paper is to make methodological basis for more detailed (in a territorial contex) analysis of innovativeness in Lithuania's regions.
- Subjects
ECONOMIC development research; LITHUANIAN economy; RESEARCH methodology; EUROPEAN Union; MATRICES (Mathematics)
- Publication
Regional Formation & Development Studies, 2013, Issue 10, p147
- ISSN
2029-9370
- Publication type
Article