Proinnowacyjny rozwój regionalny w Polsce jako kryterium analizy skupień

• Main Author: Rafał Klóska
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego 2017-01-01
• Series: Ekonomiczne Problemy Usług
• Subjects: innovation; regional development cluster analysis
• Online Access: https://wnus.edu.pl/epu/pl/issue/796/article/13078/

Increasing the potential to create, diffuse and absorb innovation is nowadays one of the strategic challenges for regional policy. In contemporary conditions, innovation is becoming a determinant of regional development. Most frequently researchers focus on the exploration of one of these multidimensional phenomena, but the relationship between them allows to approach them both separately and in combination. It is substantively justified as taking into consideration the whole complexity of regional innovation and regional development, both these economic categories should lead to positive changes, such as quantitative growth and qualitative progress of particu¬lar areas. Their components, often difficult to capture and of substitutive nature, complement one another aiming at the same goal. The carefully selected methods of multivariate statistical analysis (MSA) were used in empirical studies, as a result of which voivodeships in Poland were grouped on the basis ofproinnovative regional development. The aim of the article is to classify multi-character¬istic objects at the basic regional level in Poland considering the adopted primary criterion allowing regional innovation and regional development to be considered as a whole.