Le barriere all’innovazione per le PMI: un comune denominatore nell’area mitteleuropea
Pawel Warszycki
Direttore Esecutivo HIE-RO Hanseatic Institute for Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Rostock (DE)
Le barriere all’innovazione per le PMI: un comune denominatore nell’area mitt...AREA Science Park
Le barriere all’innovazione per le PMI: un comune denominatore nell’area mitteleuropea
Pawel Warszycki
Direttore Esecutivo HIE-RO Hanseatic Institute for Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Rostock (DE)
The paper presents an organizational framework and a methodology toolkit that tackles one of the major hurdles of economic development in South East Europe (SEE), the missing link of the innovation triple helix: the valorisation of research performed in the region’s universities and research centres.
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Le barriere all’innovazione per le PMI: un comune denominatore nell’area mitt...AREA Science Park
Le barriere all’innovazione per le PMI: un comune denominatore nell’area mitteleuropea
Pawel Warszycki
Direttore Esecutivo HIE-RO Hanseatic Institute for Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Rostock (DE)
The paper presents an organizational framework and a methodology toolkit that tackles one of the major hurdles of economic development in South East Europe (SEE), the missing link of the innovation triple helix: the valorisation of research performed in the region’s universities and research centres.
Zoltán Kolozsváry: The Part and the whole – a complex relationship between e...CUBCCE Conference
The presentation outlines the problem of contradictory expectations against professional education of the multinational giants and SME-s. The need for “engineers” more or less in the “classical” understanding of the word is evident and pressing in SME-s. The up-to-date data processing and networking has also a -side effect- in loosing important part of basic knowledge. On the other hand research and development in universities are oriented towards areas covered by the modern, sophisticated instrumentation and less on solving specific problems appeared in different industrial applications. This way important energy, time and money are wasted or at least inefficiently spent. Is this a characteristic of our era or it is just a “side effect” of the extremely fast scientific-technical development. Efforts at the Sapientia Tg.Mures with the support of local companies aiming a more industry oriented education are outlined. Experiments involving the Plasmaterm SA is aiming both research and development as well as current production activities are evaluated. A specific concept of dual education is presented, with active participation of students as part-time employees of the company during their last year of studies is briefly evaluated.
Blockchain in Education. Alexander Grech & Anthony F. Camilleri. Editor Andre...eraser Juan José Calderón
Blockchain in Education. Alexander Grech
Anthony F. Camilleri
Editor: Andreia Inamorato dos Santos
JISC.
This publication is a Science for Policy report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s
science and knowledge service. It aims to provide evidence-based scientific support to the European
policymaking process. The scientific output expressed does not imply a policy position of the European
Commission. Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is
responsible for the use that might be made of this publication.
Good Practice on Regional Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specia...TR3S PROJECT
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Existing and well-functioning regional or national innovation systems designed to support scienceand
technology-based innovation have to be further developed in order to be able to meet new
challenges from emerging global markets for technology and new forms of global knowledgesharing.
Across all countries, governments have recently been involved in research and education;
hence a need for new knowledge and new business skills will also have to be in the focus of
governmental interest. Governments have constantly been called upon to react accordingly and to
adopt innovation-friendly framework conditions. New policy tools have been created to be able to
better meet this challenge.
The regional dimension has also become of increasing significance. Nowadays, regions have come
up with own innovation strategies considering the individual regional strengths instead of spreading
public investments thinly across several frontier technology research fields and, as a consequence,
not making much of an impact.
Innovation policy has to acknowledge that traditional boundaries between manufacturing and
services are increasingly being blurred. The success of manufacturing depends, for instance, very
much on innovative services, such as design, marketing and logistics as well as on product related
after-sales services, and vice versa. More and more service providers are manufacturing goods
that build upon or are related to their service portfolio or distribution channels. But regional and
industrial development policies and tools are still not sufficiently taking account of these changes.
Service innovation is in fact a driver for growth and structural change across the entire economy. It
helps to make the entire economy more productive and provides fuel for innovation in other
industries. It even has the potential to create new growth poles and to lead markets that have a
macro-economic impact.
The so called systematic innovation policy approach, which has recently been introduced in many
industrialised countries, is based on the assumption that an effective innovation policy has to
improve all determinants that influence a given sector-specific innovation system.
The indicator-based Analysis of National Innovation Systems Approach (ANIS), developed by the
Institute for Innovation and Technology (iit Berlin) includes a comprehensive examination and
evaluation of the status of national innovation systems. It is mainly intended for emerging and
developing countries for which standard innovation benchmarking and monitoring approaches
might not be sufficient as statistical data is often missing or outdated. Policy-makers of these
countries can benefit from clear advice on how to overcome weaknesses within their national
innovation system and to identify determinants of specific relevance.
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This guide has as its objective to serve as a useful, practical reference, a document that can help lead a new project from the idea stage to a successfully launched high-tech start-up.
The key elements that are covered include the importance of high-tech start-ups to our economy and society, the specific opportunities and challenges of the robotics marketplace, characteristics of the right entrepreneur to lead the start-up, evaluating the technological position upon which the start-up is based, key considerations for defining a business model and business plan in order to convert the project from an idea to a successful company.
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If
· You work in a Region with:
o Highly developed academic system
o Poorly developed links with industries
o Small-sized industries
· You are a researcher needing to direct research activities into the innovation process,
· You are an entrepreneur needing to use academic research reselts for you company development,
· You want to access Research & Innovation funds from Horizon 2020 or Cohesion Policy
So
Read this Columbus egg guide.
A report of the literature review for research into knowledge exchange processes in KEEN projects funded by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by the University of Wolverhampton.
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Authored by: Slavo Radosevic, Richard Woodward, Deniz Eylem Yoruk
Published in 2011
Blockchain in Education. Alexander Grech & Anthony F. Camilleri. Editor Andre...eraser Juan José Calderón
Blockchain in Education. Alexander Grech
Anthony F. Camilleri
Editor: Andreia Inamorato dos Santos
JISC.
This publication is a Science for Policy report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s
science and knowledge service. It aims to provide evidence-based scientific support to the European
policymaking process. The scientific output expressed does not imply a policy position of the European
Commission. Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is
responsible for the use that might be made of this publication.
Good Practice on Regional Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specia...TR3S PROJECT
This is the descripción of a good practice on Smart Speciaalisation Strategies, named Packaging Excellence Center (PEC) developed by the Stuttgart Region in Germany
Existing and well-functioning regional or national innovation systems designed to support scienceand
technology-based innovation have to be further developed in order to be able to meet new
challenges from emerging global markets for technology and new forms of global knowledgesharing.
Across all countries, governments have recently been involved in research and education;
hence a need for new knowledge and new business skills will also have to be in the focus of
governmental interest. Governments have constantly been called upon to react accordingly and to
adopt innovation-friendly framework conditions. New policy tools have been created to be able to
better meet this challenge.
The regional dimension has also become of increasing significance. Nowadays, regions have come
up with own innovation strategies considering the individual regional strengths instead of spreading
public investments thinly across several frontier technology research fields and, as a consequence,
not making much of an impact.
Innovation policy has to acknowledge that traditional boundaries between manufacturing and
services are increasingly being blurred. The success of manufacturing depends, for instance, very
much on innovative services, such as design, marketing and logistics as well as on product related
after-sales services, and vice versa. More and more service providers are manufacturing goods
that build upon or are related to their service portfolio or distribution channels. But regional and
industrial development policies and tools are still not sufficiently taking account of these changes.
Service innovation is in fact a driver for growth and structural change across the entire economy. It
helps to make the entire economy more productive and provides fuel for innovation in other
industries. It even has the potential to create new growth poles and to lead markets that have a
macro-economic impact.
The so called systematic innovation policy approach, which has recently been introduced in many
industrialised countries, is based on the assumption that an effective innovation policy has to
improve all determinants that influence a given sector-specific innovation system.
The indicator-based Analysis of National Innovation Systems Approach (ANIS), developed by the
Institute for Innovation and Technology (iit Berlin) includes a comprehensive examination and
evaluation of the status of national innovation systems. It is mainly intended for emerging and
developing countries for which standard innovation benchmarking and monitoring approaches
might not be sufficient as statistical data is often missing or outdated. Policy-makers of these
countries can benefit from clear advice on how to overcome weaknesses within their national
innovation system and to identify determinants of specific relevance.
Conference: Social Capital and Industrial Districts. Approaching the issue. Gabaldón-Estevan, D.; ECSR Euro Summer School “Integrating Sociological Theory and Research in Europe” Nijmegen (The Netherlands) 21-28 August 2005.
This document describes the activities of the SIRIUS Centre for Research-Based Innovation hosted by the University of Oslo. SIRIUS works on linking computer science research to the innovation challenges of oil and gas exploration and operations.
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Starting a new high-tech company is not easy. Furthermore, each experience is, by definition, unique. For example, the team behind the project, the problem which is
addressed, the technology upon which the solution is based, the business context when the start-up is being launched, etc. A high-tech start-up based on robotics technology is no different -- each project will be its own. However, despite all the individual characteristics of each new high-tech start-up, there are also basic elements which are common to virtually all entrepreneurial projects. Every project needs a business model. Every project needs a team to execute the model. Every project needs financing to develop its solution, and deliver it successfully to the marketplace.
This guide has as its objective to serve as a useful, practical reference, a document that can help lead a new project from the idea stage to a successfully launched high-tech start-up.
The key elements that are covered include the importance of high-tech start-ups to our economy and society, the specific opportunities and challenges of the robotics marketplace, characteristics of the right entrepreneur to lead the start-up, evaluating the technological position upon which the start-up is based, key considerations for defining a business model and business plan in order to convert the project from an idea to a successful company.
More info at http://www.tecnalia.com/en/industry-transport/index.htm
What is innovation? Answers for academic researchersSabina Passamonti
If
· You work in a Region with:
o Highly developed academic system
o Poorly developed links with industries
o Small-sized industries
· You are a researcher needing to direct research activities into the innovation process,
· You are an entrepreneur needing to use academic research reselts for you company development,
· You want to access Research & Innovation funds from Horizon 2020 or Cohesion Policy
So
Read this Columbus egg guide.
A report of the literature review for research into knowledge exchange processes in KEEN projects funded by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by the University of Wolverhampton.
This paper focuses on knowledge-based entrepreneurship, or new firm creation in industries which are considered to be science-based or to use research and development intensively, in the East Central European (ECE) context. On the basis of case studies of thirteen knowledge-based firms in six ECE countries, we suggest that KBE firms in these countries may differ in some important ways from the conventional picture of new technology based firms. In general, we see the ECE knowledge-intensive firm as a knowledge-localiser or customiser, adapting global knowledge to local needs on the domestic market, rather than a knowledge-creator generating new solutions for global markets. The entrepreneurs who start and run these businesses are skilled at spotting trends early and bringing them to their countries. Based in countries that generally have poor reputations as sources of innovative, high-technology products, but having established strong brands for themselves in their home markets, they are struggling with the challenge of entering export markets with products and services that can achieve global, or at least regional, recognition. The studies of the companies discussed here suggest that ECE firms are still in the early stages of this strategic shift.
Authored by: Slavo Radosevic, Richard Woodward, Deniz Eylem Yoruk
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1. Barriers to innovation for SMEs: a common
denominator in Central Europe
Pawel Warszycki
HIE‐RO Hanseatic Institute for Entrepreneurship & Regional Development at
the University of Rostock (DE)
www.cebbis.eu …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
The CEBBIS project is implemented through the Central Europe Programme co‐financed by the ERDF
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AIM OF THE ANALYSIS
The aim of the expertise is to provide a technical report
with the analysis, identification and description of barriers to
innovation development processes of Small and Medium
Enterprises (SMEs) in different regions in Germany, Italy,
Hungary, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia and Poland.
4. ………………………………………………………………………………………. www.cebbis.eu
METHODOLOGY OF THE SURVEY
Secondary data
Investigation on NUTS level
highlight the most important national (country level)
trends and facts
Primary data
Survey made by using questionnaires with experts from
different groups of stakeholders
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STRUCTURE OF THE REPORTS
1. Executive summary
2. General characteristics
3. Evaluation of R&D and technology transfer
4. Best practices on technology transfer
5. Recommendations, suggestions and proposals
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DEFINITION OF THE TRANSFER OF
TECHNOLOGY
Technology transfer is the process of sharing of skills, knowledge,
technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing and
facilities among governments and other institutions to ensure that
scientific and technological developments are accessible to a wider range
of users who can then further develop and exploit the technology into new
products, processes, applications, materials or services. It is closely related
to (and may arguably be considered a subset of) knowledge transfer.
Technology brokers are people who discovered how to bridge the disparate
worlds and apply scientific concepts or processes to new situations or
circumstances.
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BARRIERS IN THE TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY
IN FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA REGION ‐ ITALY
1. Researchers lack of motivation and information for applicable
innovation
2. Lack of communication and of experience in working together
3. Lack of funding because of economic and cultural factors
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BARRIERS IN THE TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY IN
FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA REGION ‐ ITALY
1. Researchers lack of motivation and information for applicable
innovation
Researchers concentrate on the best research while business focus
on their own world to make more profit.
The scientific institutions lack the right practical research approach
to global or local level. The researches, which are focused on global
level, often are not able to find someone who wants to apply their
research results at local level. It is also true that many researchers
focus on the global level but forget the local needs.
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BARRIERS IN THE TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY
IN FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA REGION ‐ ITALY
2. Lack of communication and experience of working together
The triple helix governance (administration, business and academics)
does not exist. They have a little experience of working with each
other and each has its own perception and concentration.
The Business Development Organisations (BDOs) plays a critical in
diffusing the knowledge among actors.
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BARRIERS IN THE TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY
IN FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA REGION ‐ ITALY
3. Lack of funding because of economic and cultural factors
In Italy and in the FVG region the investment for research and
innovation is not high, because it lacks of culture of doing that. It is
still often understood that investment in research and development
is only a cost and there will be no revenues from such action.
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BARRIERS IN THE TRANSFER OF
TECHNOLOGY IN SILESIA REGION (PL)
1. Low interest of innovation at the scientific institutes
2. Low capacity of the scientific institutes in terms of organizational facilities
3. Problem in cooperation and communication with business sector
4. Rigid legal frame work and high bureaucracy
5. Lack of information for cooperation and making decisions
6. Unclear structure and function of the BDOs in the region
7. Low human capacity in BDOs to perform their tasks well
8. Low level of innovation and applying new innovation within SMEs
9. Mistrust in cooperation with BDOs and the scientific institutions
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BARRIERS IN THE TRANSFER OF
TECHNOLOGY IN POLAND
1. Insufficient internal R&D in small and medium‐sized enterprises
2. Low exploitation of patents and licences for manufacturing of innovative products
3. Difficulties in the co‐operation between the enterprise and the research institute
4. Lack of pro‐innovative engineering services for manufacturing companies located in
clusters and technological parks
5. Lack of coherence between R&D performed in R&D institutes and universities and
the needs of entrepreneurs
6. Lack of clearly defined specialization (sectoral profile) of most of technological parks
and clusters
7. Low level of readiness to undertake the risk of economic activity by scientists and
researchers
8. Insufficient links between the system of professional education of the youth and
labour market
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BARRIERS IN THE TRANSFER OF
TECHNOLOGY IN SILESIA REGION (PL)
Monitoring the activities of small enterprises and statistical
data reveals that in most of small enterprises internal R&D on
new products practically doesn’t exist. The costs to surpass this
barrier are impossible to cover for most small entrepreneurs
who generally finance their activities through their own means.
Existing venture capital funds and „business angels‟ do not
concentrate on finding and supporting small projects – they
prefer to support development of ready made products (even as
prototypes) than to decide to finance new product ideas
without any guarantee for success.
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BARRIERS IN THE TRANSFER OF
TECHNOLOGY IN SILESIA REGION (PL)
The organizational structure is not optimal – there are funds for
facilities like laboratories but no funds for staff. Companies,
however, sometimes have got better laboratories then
universities.
The general system of higher education seems to be rather
destructive concerning entrepreneurial behavior of researchers.
The decision‐makers at the universities create structural
barriers for cooperation with the business
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BARRIERS IN THE TRANSFER OF
TECHNOLOGY IN SILESIA REGION (PL)
The education system creates pressure on the scientist to follow
the formal career path (i.e. PhD dissertation, habilitation,
number of scientific publications etc.). For a typical scientist at
the university or R&D institutes the priority is the number of
publications and not the number of innovations. Therefore, they
have not got enough time for applied science in cooperation
with business.
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BARRIERS IN THE TRANSFER OF
TECHNOLOGY IN SILESIA REGION (PL)
The communication between the scientist and business sector is
another barrier. Information flow about existing solution from
the science to business is missing. Universities lock the
information on the research results if they were financed by
public funds – it causes double work on technology‐based
solutions. Communication language of scientists is too difficult
for both business and decision‐makers. However,
communication among scientists is also problematic. There is
not efficient dissemination of the information about already
existing solutions developed by researchers at universities.
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1. Low interests for innovation for SMEs at the scientific institutes
2. Low capacity of the scientific institutes to work with business sector
3. Problem in cooperation and communication with business sector
4. Rigid and high bureaucracy
5. Lack of information for making decisions
6. Unclear structure and function of the BDOs in the region
7. Low level of innovation and applying new innovation within SMEs
8. Low efficient cooperation among all actors involved in TT
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The barriers within the scientific institute are traditional career
path, organisational, structure and bureaucracy. The education
system creates pressure on the scientist to follow the formal
career path i.e. PhD dissertation, habilitation. The evaluation
system of the scientists‘ performance force them to focus more
on the basic research and publishing of its results then on applied
research (research publication). Therefore, the priority of the
scientist is the number of publications and not the number of
innovations.
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University staff is obliged to focus on their own projects financed
by external funds (like DFG). The projects within companies have
not got the same status in work evaluation of researchers.
Besides, the preparation process at universities (e.g. permission,
negotiation procedures, flexibility etc.) for the projects linked to
the business is much too long.
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Decision‐makers do not have sufficient know‐how concerning
specific business sectorial character. Lots of actions are
established not close enough to the real business life.
Funds planning process too often is not based on the analysis.
The lack of input information causes decision taken by heart.
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There is not enough transparency in the BDOs structure on the
regional level – too complex structure. There are overlaps of the
BDOs activities because of their too general character / tasks. It is
too less thematic focus of existing BDOs and therefore lack of
specialization
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1. Insufficient demand from Czech companies for the results of R&D
2. Difficult orientation in R&D offer and its usefulness (lack of evaluation
tools)
3. Poor access to finances
4. Not transparent legislation system (especially for spin‐offs or start‐ups)
5. Unsatisfactory level of cooperation between organizations within/and
related networks
6. Lack of motivation and conservative thinking of R&D personnel
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1. insufficient demand from Czech companies for the results of
R&D, which is probably caused not only by lack of funds in
smaller companies, but also by the orientation of firms to use
yet relatively cheap labor and products with lower added value
(in the survey, more than half of companies said that advantage
in foreign markets are understood to be a low cost of their
products).
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2. difficult orientation in R&D offer and its usefulness (lack of
evaluation tools)
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3. Very important aspect of the commercialization of R&D are
spin‐off companies. The survey showed that the greatest barrier
to the emergence of such firms in R&D institutions is
represented by poor access to finance (particularly pre‐seed and
seed capital).
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4. Legislation is complicated as well and very important role
dwells in prejudices of academics and institutional culture
focused mainly on academic research.
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5. Cooperation between organizations and related networking is
also unsatisfactory. The concept of clusters and their
importance for regional economic development is not
appreciated yet in the public or private sector. Clusters are not
yet a crucial priority for public policies to sub‐national level
neither.
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6. Lack of motivation and conservative thinking of R&D personnel,
who consider research as an "academic game" without
practical outcomes. This reasoning applies to an evaluation
system of R&D as well, which results are not yet sufficiently
linked to the allocation of public funds for research
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1. Low capacities on R&D
2. Organizational problems
3. University‐Industry co‐operation
4. Imbalance between supply and demand of educated workforce
5. Issues of SMEs
6. Sectoral heterogenity
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1. Low capacities on R&D
The state owned industrial research institutes with high capacities have
disappeared. Parallel, the industrial R&D capacities have decreased.
Fundamentally, these processes led to the currently operate R&D structure that has
three main pillars. The most developed part of the R&D institutions is the higher
education (especially universities), that have been followed by the institution
network of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. They mostly concentrate on basic
research and cannot give answers to the practical economic needs.
Most of the economic actors, especially the largest proportion of enterprises (SMEs)
have no direct R&D capacities on the one hand and mobilized external R&D
capacities on the other. It means that the innovative, Hungarian private owned
SMEs with high development potential cannot integrate their ideas to innovation
chain, so most of the ideas stagnate at early development phase.
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2. Organizational problems
In the current situation the structure of the national innovation system is
fragmented and the coordination is not dedicated to one national level
body. Additionally there have been many types of regional or local level
intermediaries with overlapping activities in this filed. The basic innovation
services are given by many intermediaries, while services with high added
values are missing in many fields.
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3. University‐Industry co‐operation
The universities have well developed co‐operation with large companies,
through formal agreements int he most cases. Up against it, SMEs have
special needs with low number of items. This need cannot be fitted to the
R&D structure of universities. Additionally the universities already have
their own technology transfer offices that could be good to manage
external co‐operations, but these bodies only work for their internal needs.
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4. Unbalance between supply and demand of educated workforce
Especially the two partner regions – but broadly the whole country – faces
the problem that supply of well educated workforce at some fields
(especially engineering) is not available locally. More than 80% of the
graduated entrants have degree on social or economic sciences, while
about two third of the job opportunities connected to engineering.
Additionally, the training of technicians have decreased in the past two
decades to its 30%, while the demand have increased.
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5. Issues of SMEs
Hungarian regional development policy manage SMEs as a unified group of
enterprises, while only 10‐15% of them can be characterized as an
innovative firm. All the supporting instruments and initiatives are
developed for the SMEs as a whole, that do not fit to the needs of
innovative ones in most of the cases.
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6. Sectoral heterogenity
By knowing the economic characteristics of Hungary and especially the two
partner regions, the sectoral heterogenity of the regional economies is
clear. It might be an advantage, but practivally it means that there is no
clear „image” of the regions and there are no clear branchspecific
strategies and supporting instruments. Currently the economic
characteristics of the regions are determined by the forieign owned large
companies.
37. Pawel Warszycki
HIE‐RO Hanseatic Institute for Entrepreneurship
& Regional Development at the University of
Rostock (DE)
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Ulmenstraße 69 ‐ Haus 3
18051 Rostock
phone: +49 381 498 5630
E‐mail: pawel.warszycki@hie‐ro.de
www.hie‐ro.de
The CEBBIS project is implemented through the Central Europe Programme co‐financed by the ERDF