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Volume 11 Issue 4 pp. 1295-1308 , 2021

Understanding creative, information and knowledge determinants of the economic growth of the EU regions within smart development strategies Pages 1295-1308 Right click to download the paper Download PDF

Authors: Taras Vasyltsiv, Olha Levytska, Ruslan Lupak, Oksana Gudzovata, Marta Kunytska-Iliash, Volodymyr Zaychenko, Olha Mulska

DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2020.11.009

Keywords: European Union, NUTS-2 regions, Smart strategies, Multivariate analysis, Composite method, Concentration of ICT and creative industries

Abstract: The article substantiates the relevance and necessity of involving creativity, information and knowledge-based capital while forming and implementing the smart specialization policy of the EU regions. The scientific views on the relationship between the processes of economic growth, the use of creative, information and knowledge approaches, smart-oriented spatial and territorial planning are generalized. A new approach for assessing the creative, information and knowledge determinants of the EU regions’ economy transformations with the use of the multivariate regression analysis, a composite method, and strategic structural and functional design is developed. The scores of the sub-indices of the Global Innovation Index, the Global Talent Competitiveness Index and the World Digital Competitiveness Ranking are selected as the initial parameters of regression analysis. The relationships between these factors and the change in the GDP volume per capita, the share of GDP used for gross investment, high-tech exports, and the Global Quality of Life Index are revealed. The composite indicators of the concentration of creative and digital (ICT) industries in the EU regions are calculated (based on the level of enterprise concentration in an industry, the share of the employed in the field and the share of an industry in the regional economy in terms of wages). The priorities of smart specialization strategies of the EU’s individual regions, which are related to creative, information and knowledge factors, are identified. The calculations have confirmed sufficient closeness of the relationship between the use of creative, information and knowledge factors and the fulfillment of the tasks of smart specialization strategies in the EU regions. The sequence of the formation of tools and means for the implementation of the strategy of the regions’ smart specialization in the context of attraction and effective use of the determinants grouped by three directions (creativitization, digitalization and new knowledge) is presented.

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Vasyltsiv, T., Levytska, O., Lupak, R., Gudzovata, O., Kunytska-Iliash, M., Zaychenko, V & Mulska, O. (2021). Understanding creative, information and knowledge determinants of the economic growth of the EU regions within smart development strategies.Management Science Letters , 11(4), 1295-1308.

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