Open AccessSMART SPECIALIZATION POTENTIAL REVEALING FOR THE OVERCOMING OF REGIONAL STRUCTURAL INERTNESS IN UKRAINE
Author(s) -
Olena SNIHOVA
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
ekonomìka ukraïni
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2522-9478
pISSN - 2522-9303
DOI - 10.15407/economyukr.2018.08.075
Subject(s) - principal (computer security) , process (computing) , regional policy , regional development , economic system , business , industrial organization , industrial policy , regional science , economic geography , computer science , economics , international trade , political science , computer security , geography , law , operating system
Prerequisites for the formation and development of the smart specialization concept in the EU are researched. The author identified the main characteristics of the smart specialization and its focus on mitigating the regional problems that impeded the realization of regional potential and discouraged the technological changes in the basic sectors of regional economy. It is found that entrepreneurial insight is the main principle of smart specialization, differentiating this innovative approach to priorities of the regional development setting from the previous ones. European practice of the smart specialization implementation is analyzed as based on the precise establishment of its correlation with the principal elements of the European policy of economic growth: regional, industrial and innovational components. The process of introducing the smart specialization in Ukraine is also being considered. Its specific features are revealed, touching upon the usage of the smart specialization approaches taking into account the regional specifics of the industrial development of the country. Inexpediency and unjustifiedness of the predominance of industrial component over other aspects of the smart specialization concept is justified. Proposals are made to improve the use of the smart specialization approaches, aimed at its becoming an instrument of a new regional policy, in Ukraine’s state policy.