scholarly journals European smart specialization for Ukrainian regional development: path from creation to implementation

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yevheniia Polishchuk ◽  
Alla Ivashchenko ◽  
Igor Britchenko ◽  
Pavel Machashchik ◽  
Serhiy Shkarlet
Keyword(s):  
Direct Action ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
National Level ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Organizational Mechanism ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Smart Specialization ◽  
The Eu

The focus of the research is to develop recommendations of smart specialization (SS) for Ukrainian policymakers using European approaches. The authors revealed that the main SS projects are presented in such sectors as agri-food, industrial modernization and energy. More than 12 EU countries were the plot for conducted analysis of SS, as a result of which the level of activity of each country was determined. The creation of consortiums, including SMEs, associations, universities and other participants, disclosed the successful way of SS realization. The structure of SME’s innovative potential in Ukraine was identified underlining their main characteristic features like types of innovations and innovative activity, differentiation according to enterprise size, their regional distribution. The authors explored lack of innovations on regional and national level and significant territorial disparities, which could be eliminated through policy implementation of regional SS. The existing legislative norms for possibility of SS implementation in Ukraine were analyzed due to correspondence with the EU ones. The analysis provides the opportunity to consider them only as general framework documents without any action plans and sectoral prioritization at all. The weak points of these law documents are emphasized. As a result of research, the authors developed recommendations presented by direct action plan for Ukrainian policymakers, which include such activities as underlining key priorities (especially ICT applicability in every SS project) and their correspondence with the EU ones; eliminating regional imbalances by focusing on innovation development and reorientation of some regions according to SS priorities; respecting regional existing capacities; providing organizational mechanism for cooperation of stakeholders and financial mechanism for SS support through the EU structural funds.

European experience in transition to circular economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 598-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.V. Ratner
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
National Level ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
European Experience ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
The Eu

Subject. The article considers the concept of circular economy, which has originated relatively recently in the academic literature, and is now increasingly recognized in many countries at the national level. In the European Union, the transition to circular economy is viewed as an opportunity to improve competitiveness of the European Union, protect businesses from resource shortages and fluctuating prices for raw materials and supplies, and a way to increase employment and innovation. Objectives. The aim of the study is to analyze the incentives developed by the European Commission for moving to circular economy, and to assess their effectiveness on the basis of statistical analysis. Methods. I employ general scientific methods of research. Results. The analysis of the EU Action Plan for the Circular Economy enabled to conclude that the results of the recent research in circular economy barriers, eco-innovation, technology and infrastructure were successfully integrated into the framework of this document. Understanding the root causes holding back the circular economy development and the balanced combination of economic and administrative incentives strengthened the Action Plan, and it contributed to the circular economy development in the EU. Conclusions. The measures to stimulate the development of the circular economy proposed in the European Action Plan can be viewed as a prototype for designing similar strategies in other countries, including Russia. Meanwhile, a more detailed analysis of barriers to the circular economy at the level of individual countries and regions is needed.

scholarly journals The Efficiency of Financing the Regional Smart-Specialization Strategies’ Implementation from the EU Structural Funds

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Iryna Storonyanska ◽  
Maryana Melnyk ◽  
Iryna Leshchukh ◽  
Svitlana Shchehlyuk ◽  
Tetyana Medynska
Keyword(s):  
Inverse Correlation ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Regional Basis ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Smart Specialization ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
The Eu

The paper provides the empirical analysis of the efficiency of financing the regional smart-specialization strategies’ implementation from the structural funds in the context of its impact on the improvement of economic wellbeing and prevention of growing regional misbalances in the EU at the NUTS 2 level. It verifies the inverse correlation between the GRP volumes per capita in the EU Member States and the volumes of funding of the smart-specialization activities. The financial resources of the EU structural funds for the implementation of the regional smart-specialization strategies are established to be distributed on a regional basis and to be showing the signs of the aligning policy, which is a reasonable tactic from the viewpoint of the need to secure the balanced spatial development. However, the paper emphasizes that the less developed regions aren’t able to fully generate powerful innovations that would boost the economic activity in the smart-specialization domains yet.

scholarly journals Downloading Europe: A Regional Comparison in the Uptake of the EU Forest Action Plan

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 3999
Author(s):  
Filip Aggestam ◽  
Helga Pülzl
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
National Level ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Policy Instrument ◽  
Individual Member ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

The first EU Forest Strategy was adopted in 1998 to provide general guidelines for an EU forest policy designed to coordinate other EU forest-relevant policies. The implementation of the first strategy was done under the auspices of the EU Forest Action Plan, covering the period from 2007 to 2011. The Forest Action Plan was a tool that facilitated voluntary cooperation between EU Member States (no enforcement capabilities), with some coordinating actions being implemented by the European Commission. The reason for returning to the Forest Action Plan in this article is to provide further insight into how it was employed by EU Member States—in contrast to the majority of similar articles on the topic, which are primarily concerned with an examination of EU forest-relevant policies by either analyzing the impact of EU decision-making on forestry at the national level or studying EU Member States’ influence on the EU rather than how EU Member States actually react to EU strategies. This paper addresses this empirical gap and highlights the significant variations of the Europeanization effects on EU Member States when deciding upon and implementing a non-legally binding policy instrument when compared to legally binding policy instruments. Individual Member States exhibit varied strategies when implementing a soft policy instrument, as their respective decision spaces are substantially different, particularly when the costs and benefits of complying are not comparable to those of a legally binding instrument. These results highlight the need for a more nuanced and varied approach to the implementation of soft policy instruments by the EU, with the additional implementation strategies suggested in this article being presented to assist in meeting this need for variation.

scholarly journals Competitiveness of the European Automobile Industry in the Global Context

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Vošta ◽  
Aleš Kocourek
Keyword(s):  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
National Level ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The automobile industry is one of the most rapidly growing industries, a significant employer and investor in research and development, and also one of the most important sectors of the EU economy. Nevertheless, even this sector has gone through a series of structural changes and territorial transfers, recently. Exactly for this reason, it seems crucial to examine the competitiveness of the automobile industry on the national level, analyze the long-term trends throughout the whole EU, and put them in a global context. The article uses standard methods of statistical analysis of indices of revealed symmetrical comparative advantage to detect the trends characterizing the shape and long-term development of the automobile industry in Europe. The authors point out the substantial shift s in production and exports from traditional Western European car makers in favor of the new EU member states, but also from the USA and Canada in favor of new, fast-growing developing countries in the South and Southeast Asia and in Latin America. A brief outline of the European Commission’s response to these changes in the European automobile industry in the form of an Action Plan CARS 2020 can be found in the final part of the article.

scholarly journals Limited Impact of the EU on Candidate States

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Hakan Cavlak ◽  
Davuthan Gunaydin
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
National Level ◽  
Candidate Country ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Made In

The employment policy is one of the most disputable areas between Turkey and the EU. The EU declared two opening conditions, one about union rights and the other one about preparing an action plan displaying step by step the transposing of EU laws. Although Turkey claims that she met those criteria, the EU insists on keeping the accession negotiations in this area closed. However, there is serious gap between Turkish and European employment policies and in order to comply with the EU’s, there is a strong need of enthusiasm in Turkey for proper implementation of changes made in legal and institutional structures. Simultaneously, the EU has to offer a considerable incentive, e.g. membership, for Turkey to encourage her to adapt EU rules in employment policy. Unfortunately, it is argued in this paper that the current situation is the opposite, i.e. there is no substantial incentive from the EU to encourage Turkey and thus, no enthusiasm from Turkey to comply with the EU policy. In order to analyze the impact of the EU on Turkey’s employment policy the main question designed in this paper is: ‘To what extent does the EU have influence on policy convergence in a candidate country that does not have a clear membership perspective? ‘. It is argued in this study that “without a concrete incentive, European Union’s impact on a candidate country would be limited”.  Thus, the patterns of policy change at the national level are the dependent variable to be observed. The European Union’s conditionality is the independent variable that is expected to alter the national patterns.

scholarly journals Institutional and organizational support of the implementation of smart-specialization model in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-46
Author(s):  
Iryna Storonyanska ◽  
◽  
Ivan Zalutsky ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
National Level ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Smart Specialization ◽  
The Eu

The problem of formation at the national level of sustainable institutional and organizational support for the implementation of the model of smart specialization on the basis of the rule of law and the implementation of modern European tools is considered. The methodological features of the smart specialization policy in the EU and the practice of its implementation as a basis for the formation of institutional and organizational support for the implementation of such a model in Ukraine are highlighted. The problems and contradictions of the modern mechanism of smart specialization, formed at the secondary level, are revealed. The threat of departure of modern legal regulation of strategic planning of regional development from the European methodology of smart specialization, real risks of monosectoral implementation of smart specialization in the framework of sustainable industrial development and further stagnation of the process of innovative transformation of economic sectors at different administrative levels. Taking into account the need to eliminate the existing significant shortcomings in the institutional and organizational support for the implementation of the smart specialization model, it is proposed to amend a number of laws of Ukraine, which lay the foundation for legally sound and structural legislation functioning at different administrative-territorial levels.

Smart Specialization and R&I Policy Framework in Turkey

2019 ◽  
pp. 209-233
Author(s):  
Erkan Erdil ◽  
Dilek Çetin
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
National Level ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Evaluation Mechanism ◽  
Smart Specialization ◽  
Definition Of

The smart specialization strategy (S3) has been accepted as a solution for the European Union (EU) to catch up United States in productivity, R&D intensity, etc. The process of research and innovation strategies for smart specialization (RIS3) is described in six steps: the regional/national context, governance, elaboration, identification of priorities, the definition of coherent policy mix and action plan, and finally, the integration of monitoring and evaluation mechanism. In this chapter, the situation in Turkey is evaluated under these six steps. RIS3 strategy is not specified on the national level at Turkey, while it is debatable on the regional level.

scholarly journals Measuring the quality of an e-learning course

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (5Bis) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne Schreurs
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Ict In Education ◽  
External Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Report ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
Project Objectives ◽  
The Eu

The EU Commission's learning action plan stresses the importance of ICT in education and quality assurance is part of the Bologna Declaration. General approaches to quality and to measuring quality are ISO, TQM and EFQM and Kirkpatrick for education. 2 popular quality measuring models are SEVAQ and SEEQUEL which are both based on EFQM and Kirkpatrick. In the project OLAREX a set of e-learning courses are developed to fulfill the project objectives: to enhance and modernize STEM curricula, foster students' creativity and motivation and develop professional e-didactic and technology competences and skills. The following quality assurance methods and tools are used: external and internal evaluation, comparative assessments, learners evaluation using questionnaires, informal discussions, observations and networking. A SEEQUEL revised model is developed by the external experts for the external evaluation. The model is described in the paper. Part of the evaluation report is presented. In this report strong and weak points are formulated and needed improvements of the e-learning courses are advised.

Modernisation of Higher Education – Willful Action or Wishful Thinking? The Case of Bulgaria

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-17
Author(s):  
Elena Blagoeva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
National Level ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

The impact of the last global economic crisis (2008) on the European economy put a strain on higher education (HE), yet it also pushed the sector towards intensive reforms and improvements. This paper focuses on the “Strategy for the Development of Higher Education in the Republic of Bulgaria 2014-2020”. With a case study methodology, we explore the strategic endeavours of the Bulgarian government to comply with the European directions and to secure sustainable growth for the HE sector. Our research question is ‘How capable is the Bulgarian HE Strategy to overcome the economic and systemic restraints of Bulgarian higher education?’. Because the development of strategies for HE within the EU is highly contextual, a single qualitative case study was chosen as the research approach. HE institutions are not ivory towers, but subjects to a variety of external and internal forces. Within the EU, this is obviated by the fact that Universities obtain their funds from institutions such as governments, students and their families, donors, as well as EU-level programmes. Therefore, to explore how these pressures interact to affect strategic action on national level, the case method is well suited as it enabled us to study the phenomena thoroughly and deeply. The paper suggests the actions proposed within the Strategy have the potential to overcome the delay, the regional isolation and the negative impact of the economic crisis on the country. Nevertheless, the key elements on which the success or failure of this Strategy hinges are the control mechanisms and the approach to implementation. Shortcomings in these two aspects of strategic actions in HE seem to mark the difference between gaining long-term benefits and merely saving face in front of international institutions.

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