Klaipėdos universitetas

Innovations and innovative activities are becoming themost important feature of a country or region development. For this reason agreat amount of literature highlights this topic. There are a lot of documents,strategies and programs signed which try to enhance business competitivenessand productivity. Formation of regional policy should make that thisdevelopment will ensure a high quality of life throughout the country. Economicgrowth of countries in encouraging to look for more efficienty, which isdirectly related with innovative entities. The significance of innovations isthe focus of EU regional policy. Although the innovation phenomenon is widelyanalyzed, consistent and specified concept is not formulated. Thus, this paperwill primarily discuss the diversity of innovation concept and interface withthe regional concept. Another part of the work aims to reveal the determinantsof the regional development influencing innovation activities by differentauthor’s approaches. The final section of this paper is to present adoptedmethodological matrix for innovativeness evaluation for regions in Lithuania.In Lithuaniainnovativeness is counted just on a country’s level, no territorial importanceis emphasised. Even though innovations are closely related with regionalpolicy. So the main purpose of this paper is to make methodological basis formore detailed (in a territorial contex) analysis of innovativeness in Lithuania’sregions.

The presence of imbalances and asymmetries of the rural development form the need of harmonious development directions of the village that led to the choice of a researched topic. The aim of this work is to find and study areas and mechanisms for the orderly development of rural areas based on the principles of formation food and economic security, organic farming, and waste-free life and bio-adequate approaches in growing up and education. The study covers the period from 1991 to 2014. Evaluation of the results was based on sociometric and statistical methods. Theoretical and methodological basis of research was grounded on system-synergetic approach to the study and modelling of socio-economic processes. It was formed a model of dynamic ecological social and economic settlement system capable of self-sufficiency. Specificity of the organization and functioning of the environmental settlements in terms of global challenges was identified.

Straipsnis yra teorinio pobūdžio, skirtaskompleksiškai nagrinėti regionalizavimo procesus globalizacijos kontekste,parodant, kad regionalizavimo procesų tyrimai yra svarbi globalizacijai skirtųtyrimų sritis. Išryškinti svarbiausi istoriškai susiklostę globalizacijosetapai, parodyti kiekvienam etapui būdingi regionalizavimo procesų ypatumai.Straipsnyje detaliai apibūdinta daugiadimensės regionalizacijos koncepcija,pasiūlytas „orbitų“ modelis. Aptariamos galimybės panaudoti daugiadimensėsregionalizacijos koncepciją bei „orbitų“ modelį internacionalizavimo irregionalizacijos procesų strateginiame planavime. Straipsnyje aptariamosperspektyvios tolesnių mokslinių tyrimų kryptys, skirtos regionalizavimoprocesams ir regionų raidai globalizacijos kontekste.

The aim of this paper is to analyse concepts of sustainable development directed at addressing the needs of society and undertaking

The Author discussed, explored, evaluated and diagnosed the disparities of economic activity on regional level. The study embraced five peripheral regions of Poland, namely five Eastern provinces (voivodships), i.e. Lublin Province, Podlasie Province, Subcarpathia Province, Świętokrzyskie Province and Warmia-Masuria Province. The aforementioned five voivodships were compared to Poland and Poland’s central region, i.e. Masovia Province. The following elements were taken into consideration: employment rate and employment by sectors, unemployment rate, GDP per capita, number of economic entities and number of natural persons conducting economic activity, investment outlays and gross expenditure on R&D activity, as well as net internal and external migration for permanent residence. In order to observe the possible changes over the time the situation in 2005 and 2017 was studied. Additionally, the total value of projects co-financed by the European Union through Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund within 2007–2013 period and 2014–2020 perspective was presented and analyzed. The research tools used in the article included literature studies, critical thinking, descriptive analysis and comparative analysis, in that the selected statistical method of multivariate comparative analysis, i.e. Hellwig’s taxonomic measure of development. Statistical material provided by Central Statistical Office (Warsaw, Poland) and taken from Statistical Yearbooks of the Regions 2006, 2007, 2017 and 2018 was used for the analysis. The obtained results indicate the persistence of huge regional disparities of economic activity, economic potential and socioeconomic development despite the implementation of EU Policy of Social, Economic and Territorial Cohesion. Hence, it was possible to positively verify the research hypotheses: both the first hypothesis assuming that the gap between the studied peripheral regions and the rest of Poland was not reduced and the second hypothesis assuming that the participation in the processes of regional economic integration, and in particular in EU Policy of Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion, had only limited impact on the reduction of disparities between Poland’s regions.

Straipsnyje pateikiamas darnumo principų įgyvendinimo poveikio įmonių veiklos efektyvumui problematiką atskleidžiantis tyrimas. Atliktas tyrimas rodo nepakankamą darnumo principų įgyvendinimo poveikio įmonių veiklos efektyvumui suvokimą šalies ekonominės veiklos valdymo lygmeniu. Siekta ištirti darnumo principų įgyvendinimo ir poveikio veiklos efektyvumui problematikos aspektus. Šiam tikslui pasitelktas kokybinis tyrimas, apklausiant ekspertus, duomenims rinkti nuspręsta taikyti interviu metodą, jie apdoroti kokybinės turinio analizės metodu. Tyrimas atskleidė, kad darnumo principais pagrįsta veikla akivaizdžiai skatina įmonių veiklos efektyvumą. Darnumo principų įgyvendinimo procesus veikia šie veiksniai: darnus vadovavimas, darnios žinios, tinkami rodikliai, tinkamas valdymo modelis. Parodoma, kad bendras darnumo principų kompleksiškumo poveikis yra veiksmingiausias būdas formuoti ilgalaikius konkurencinio pranašumo pagrindus.

Shared Service Centres (SSCs) may lead to job creation in the professional field in the less developed EU region. By 2015, in the CEE region, the number of employees in this sector exceeded 335 000 and the trend tends to be increasing heavily. Looking at the actual numbers of the sector, the author tries to define the main decision making factors for a SSC to settle down in the region. The paper focuses on the evaluation of possibilities, arguing if the development of the SSC sector can continue creating jobs in this region.