Regional patterns in technological progress of Poland: the role of EU structural funds

Gurgul, Henryk

doi:10.1007/s10100-018-0556-5

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“…The adopted methodology allowed us to achieve our research objective because of its ability to show the development and adjustment processes of human capital and the innovativeness of Polish regions. The results of the study are consistent with the current map of regional disparities in Poland (Czyż & Hauke, 2011;Gorzelak, 2006;Gurgul & Łach, 2019;Opiłowska, 2019;Wielki et al, 2018), which proves the hypothesis that human capital is the main source of regional disparities and explains them. In addition, it that current disparities have been influenced by the historical and geographic accumulation of human capital.…”

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Regional Disparities as a Result of Differences in Human Capital and Innovativeness on the Example of Poland

Jagódka

Snarska

2023

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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Inequalities in human capital most often affect other spheres of life. It is people who create innovation, so the unequal distribution of human capital and innovation in the regions leads to development disparities between regions. This, in turn, is a force inhibiting the achievement of higher levels of prosperity at the national level. The existing studies mainly focus on the assessment of disparities in development between countries. Although understandings of mechanisms of regional disparities, i.e., assessment of how and whether disparities are disappearing or widening under current socio-economic conditions is crucial to economic stability and cohesion, the problem of determinants of development and the pace of development between regions has rarely been studied in the economic literature. The purpose of the article, therefore, is to show how quickly weaker regions are catching up with more developed regions and that regional disparities are mainly the result of uneven human capital accumulation. The authors wonder if human capital in the regions is used similarly to create innovation. Hence, they examine the rate of development of these two relationships. The research: (1) determines the pace of development and adjustment processes by using the dynamic time warping method, (2) discovers if human capital is the main driver of regional disparities and is fully utilized in the creation of innovativeness.

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“…Polish regions still exhibit significant differences in human capital endowment. There is a visible division between the more developed West and less developed East of the country (Czyż & Hauke, 2011;Gorzelak, 2006;Gurgul & Łach, 2019;Opiłowska, 2019;Wielki et al, 2018).…”

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Regional Disparities as a Result of Differences in Human Capital and Innovativeness on the Example of Poland

Jagódka

Snarska

2023

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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“…The reason for the current developmental disproportions between Polish regions is the historical and geographical accumulation of human capital (Czyż & Hauke, 2011;Gorzelak, 2006;Gurgul & Łach, 2019;Jagódka, 2021;Jagódka & Snarska, 2021;Opiłowska, 2019;Wielki et al, 2018). It turns out that large cities are more successful in applying for public support, which means that weaker regions still lack development impulses for smaller cities and urban areas.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Poland, as a developing country, represents the former Eastern Bloc countries. The East-West dualism appears either for human capital or innovativeness in Poland, either due to historical and territorial aspects of country (Czyż & Hauke, 2011;Gorzelak, 2006;Gurgul & Łach, 2019;Opiłowska, 2019;Wielki et al, 2018).…”

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Should We Continue EU Cohesion Policy? The Dilemma of Uneven Development of Polish Regions

Jagódka

Snarska

2022

Soc Indic Res

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The European Union and the whole world are facing the problem of increasing income and wealth inequalities at the country and regional levels. Inequalities are a severe obstacle to sustainable and balanced growth. Politicians perceive this problem by trying to implement different types of development models. The cohesion policy is the European Union's response to the development differences between countries and regions. It is clearly defined that development has to be sustainable and inclusive, which is reflected in the objectives of all leading EU development strategies. The aim of this paper is (1) to examine how effective the EU cohesion policy is in reducing regional disparities (2) to assess that the main cause of regional disparities is the misallocation of human capital. The authors base their study on the regions of Poland, estimating the state of their human capital and innovation between 2004 and 2018. We examine the effectiveness of cohesion policy using functional data analysis—the Wilcoxon test, which was used for the first time for this type of issue. The current question is whether to help metropolises and large cities, which will entail the development of smaller units, or whether to try to increase the rate of development of smaller and economically weaker territorial units in the first place.

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Implementation of MGWR-SAR models for investigating a local particularity of European regional innovation processes

Furková

2021

Cent Eur J Oper Res

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Regional patterns in technological progress of Poland: the role of EU structural funds

Cited by 3 publications

References 30 publications

Regional Disparities as a Result of Differences in Human Capital and Innovativeness on the Example of Poland

Regional Disparities as a Result of Differences in Human Capital and Innovativeness on the Example of Poland

Should We Continue EU Cohesion Policy? The Dilemma of Uneven Development of Polish Regions

Implementation of MGWR-SAR models for investigating a local particularity of European regional innovation processes

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