<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The aim of the paper is to verify whether a change in innovation model by less-developed regions may speed up development processes and if innovativeness plays crucial role in these processes. Cluster analysis conducted for the years 1994-2014 showed that the majority of lessdeveloped regions in 1994-2000 that experienced significant growth by 2011-2014 changed their innovation models. Logit regression confirmed that innovation factors play a crucial role in high growth rates. The findings suggest that less-developed regions can break out of path dependency by increasing their shares of high-tech industries and employment in science and technology and boosting technology transfer, which usually involves changing and improving their innovation models.</p></abstract>

The aim of the paper is to verify whether a change in innovation model by less-developed regions may speed up development processes and if innovativeness plays crucial role in these processes. Cluster analysis conducted for the years 1994-2014 showed that the majority of lessdeveloped regions in 1994-2000 that experienced significant growth by 2011-2014 changed their innovation models. Logit regression confirmed that innovation factors play a crucial role in high growth rates. The findings suggest that less-developed regions can break out of path dependency by increasing their shares of high-tech industries and employment in science and technology and boosting technology transfer, which usually involves changing and improving their innovation models.

Transforming innovation models in European regions: Breaking out of path dependency and growing faster?

Miscellanea Geographica

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The aim of the paper is to verify whether a change in innovation model by less-developed regions may speed up development processes and if innovativeness plays...

Transforming innovation models in European regions: Breaking out of path dependency and growing faster?

Article Category: Thematic Issue: Innovations in Peripheral Regions

Published Online: Jun 30, 2017

Page range: 51 - 59

Received: Jan 26, 2017

Accepted: Apr 10, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgrsd-2017-0006

Keywords
Regional development, development path, path dependency, lessdeveloped region, innovation model, innovativeness

© by Korneliusz Pylak

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Transforming innovation models in European regions: Breaking out of path dependency and growing faster?

Article Category: Thematic Issue: Innovations in Peripheral Regions

Published Online: Jun 30, 2017

Page range: 51 - 59

Received: Jan 26, 2017

Accepted: Apr 10, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgrsd-2017-0006

KeywordsRegional development, development path, path dependency, lessdeveloped region, innovation model, innovativeness

© by Korneliusz Pylak

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Regional development, development path, path dependency, lessdeveloped region, innovation model, innovativeness