Modern methodology for research of innovation activities localization under conditions of globalization

Fedirko Oleksandr
Ph.D., Associate proftssor, Deputy Head of the Department of European Integration, Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman. E-mail:alexfedirko@yahoo.com

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Fedirko O., (2015) Modern methodology for research of innovation activities localization under conditions of globalization. Ed.: М.D. Baldzhy (ed.-in-ch.) and others [Systema pensiinoho zabezpechennia Ukrainy ta yevrointehratsiini protsesy; za red.: М. D. Baldzhy (gol. red.)], Scientific Bulletin of the Odessa National Economic University (ISSN 2313-4569), Odessa National Economics University, Odessa, No. 12(232), pp. 214-226.

Abstract

The essence and genesis of the modern innovation localization models have been uncovered. The links between the concepts of local concentration of innovation have been identified on the basis of comprehending their categories, principles and underlying trends of regional development. It is proved that theoretical and methodical tools of the concepts of industrial districts, new industrial spaces, clusters, innovative milieus, regional and local innovation systems reflect the emergence of a new local-innovation paradigm of socio-economic development, whose systemic nature is based on the synergetic interplay of interdisciplinary studies. Adaptation of the concepts from the regulatory approach, social and cognitive sciences to the field of research of economic phenomena and processes is the attempt to take account of a number of endogenous factors of social development, which for quite a long time (till mid-1980s) were ordinarily ignored in the methodology of the classic economics. This eclectic synthesis of scientific achievements resulted, on the one hand, in the formation of the new complex research dimension in the regional studies, called the ‘new regionalism’, and on the other one – in its growing criticism due to the unjustifiable borrowing of non-economic categories by its followers.

Keywords

: networks, industrial districts, clusters, local innovation systems, innovative milieu, local-innovation paradigm.

JEL classification: F63

UD classification: 339.9:332.05

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