The Paradigm of Innovation: From the Entrepreneur to the System

Abstract

Innovation makes an essential contribution to the economic and social progress of all countries, regardless their level of development. The aim of this research is to analyze Romania's national innovation system, and its objective is to identify the evolution of the innovation concept, from its emergence to the treatment of innovation at national / regional level, as a system (through the decisive contribution of OECD and EU). The paper analyzes and synthesizes the main bibliographic sources in the field of innovation, the research being quantitative, from secondary sources -analysis of statistical data provided by Eurostat and by the Romanian National Institute of Statistics, to identify the level of innovation performance in the EU and also Romania's position within the Union, based on the composite innovation index. Following the research, it can be seen that innovation, in terms of defining the term and the conceptual approach, has seen a continuous evolution, from Schumpeter's theory, which regards innovation as a source of business cycles (1939), to innovation, seen as a result of processes within a system (Miettinen, 2002). The research highlights the negative evolution of the performance of the Romanian innovative system within the EU (2019: 22.46% of Sweden's performance and 34.4% of the EU average performance), given that the horizon of the last relevant strategy (2020) has been exceeded and no other strategy has been developed yet.

Logistics Innovations and Their Impact on the Development of Transportation Infrastructure in Europe: Future Prospects

“…The hypothesis by (Radulescu, 2021) confirmed by the results that the development of digital platforms for sharing transport is a key aspect of innovation in logistics. These platforms allow efficient coordination of cargo flows, reducing the load on the road infrastructure.…”

“…The analysis by (Luke, 2020) shows that the trend of investments in the logistics industry is constantly growing every year by an average of 4.5%. According to (Sarbu, 2021), the practice of spreading investments in digital technologies for logistics is connected with the competitive struggle for modern commodity and raw material markets. Mastering new business segments for most companies, according to (Andrusiv, 2021), possible only with effective development of logistics and transport routes.…”

“…According to the research by (Philipp, 2020), logistics costs of an enterprise are one of the most important components of total costs, which is a strategic issue for business. The cost optimisation in logistics, as noted by (Radulescu, 2021), is possible due to the automation of most warehousing processes, routing and logistics project management. According to (Hryhorak, 2020), an effective means of building one's own digital infrastructure can be the use of cloud technologies, as this practice will reduce the amount of costs for own software, hardware, server support and other technological costs.…”