scholarly journals Assumptions and Implementation of Smart Growth and Inclusive Growth Targets under the Europe 2020 Strategy

2019 ◽  
Vol XXII (Issue 2) ◽  
pp. 199-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Klikocka
Keyword(s):  
Smart Growth ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy

scholarly journals Selected problems and roles of innovation development in the Slovak Republic

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 662-673
Author(s):  
Vladimir Gonda
Keyword(s):  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Lisbon Strategy ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
The Subject

In the current conditions of globalization, the importance of innovation is growing. Innovation is a key to sustainable growth, a tool to increase the competitiveness of companies, regions, states and integration groups, a means to address societal challenges. The European Union pays great attention to innovation efforts - f.e. through the group-wide strategies of competitiveness such as the Lisbon strategy and the Europe 2020 strategy. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the fulfillment of the Europe 2020 national goals for Slovakia in the field of smart growth, to analyze selected issues of innovative development in Slovakia and to propose possible measures for its improvement. As the subject matter is extremely complex and multitangular, the paper discusses only selected issues and questions.

scholarly journals Camouflaged Culture: The ‘Discursive Journey’ of the EU’s Cultural Programmes

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (82) ◽  
pp. 14-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjarki Valtysson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Maastricht Treaty ◽  
The Political ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Cultural Sector ◽  
Cultural Interventions

Abstract This article inspects discursive shifts in the EU’s cultural policy and how these relate to the four ‘generations’ of EU cultural programmes: Raphaël, Ariane, Kaleidoscope; Culture 2000; Culture 2007; and the current Creative Europe programme. This paper therefore accounts for a ‘discursive journey’ that started in the 1970s and culminated with Article 128 in the Maastricht Treaty, which formally constituted the EU’s cultural policy. The article reveals that there can be detected certain shifts in discourses concerning the EU’s cultural programmes, but these shifts are aligned to older discourses within the cultural sector which, prior to the Maastricht Treaty, applied implicit cultural interventions. These therefore represented ‘camouflaged’ cultural understanding and appliances, which were instrumental and promoted economically and politically induced discourses. The major shift detected in the recent Creative Europe programme is a step away from discourses that facilitate the political construction of a ‘people’s Europe’, thereby utilising further discourses that promote aims which adhere to the Union’s Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.

scholarly journals A Spatial Analysis of the Achievements, in Terms of Regional Development, Accomplished by the Initial EU-Member Cohesion Fund Beneficiaries Using a Synthetic Indicator

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodríguez Martín ◽  
Martín Martín ◽  
Salinas Fernández ◽  
Zermeño Mejía ◽  
Añaños Bedriñana
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Distance Method ◽  
Single Indicator ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
Synthetic Indicator ◽  
Cohesion Fund

This study proposes construction of a synthetic indicator to measure progress toward the objective of economic and social cohesion among the regions of Spain, Greece, Ireland and Portugal within the framework of European Community Regional Policy and the spatial disparities among these countries. Our aim is to integrate, in a single indicator, a large number of variables defined by the European Commission to monitor improvements in regional development, classified according to the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. To achieve this goal, we use the Pena distance method for the year 2013.

Education and Human Capital

2017 ◽  
pp. 40-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Papadopoulou
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
Basic Expression

In European Union, human capital along with its basic expression education has been placed high on the policy agenda. This chapter aims to analyze the human capital in Greece, in order to provide an integrated overview on how well Greece is operating its human capital and education targets, under the terms of Europe 2020 strategy. Consequently, the achievement of the relevant ethnic targets is vital, for having a “smart, sustainable, inclusive growth” in Greece.

Paradigms in EU social policy: a critical account of Europe 2020

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Daly
Keyword(s):  
Social Goals ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
The Third ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strong Orientation ◽  
Critical Account ◽  
Similar Basis

This article offers a critical account of the ‘social’ in the Europe 2020 strategy, focusing on the new poverty target and the European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion. The article reaches three main conclusions. First, while poverty is given a prominent place in the strategy and the recourse to targets is intended to harden up Member State and EU coordination in the field, the poverty target is loose and risks being rendered ineffective as an EU-wide target. Secondly, the social goals and philosophy of Europe 2020 are under-elaborated. While it is important that the poverty-related measures are treated on a similar basis to the other elements of Europe 2020, it is not made clear how growth will bring about the planned reduction in poverty. ‘Inclusive growth’ has little meaning in itself. This leads to the third conclusion which is that Europe 2020 lacks a coherent model of social development. Philosophically, it draws mainly from social investment and liberal approaches, neither of which has a strong orientation to addressing poverty.

scholarly journals Identification of Maritime Technology Development Mechanisms in the Context of Latvian Smart Specialisation and Blue Growth

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-69
Author(s):  
E. Pudzis ◽  
A. Adlers ◽  
I. Pukite ◽  
S. Geipele ◽  
N. Zeltins
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Smart Specialisation ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Maritime Technology ◽  
Blue Growth ◽  
Growth Promoting

Abstract Recognising the fact that economic realities change the world faster than global politics, in 2010 the European Commission approved the strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, called EUROPE 2020, in order to promote greater economic independence and achieve a more sustainable future. The strategy puts forward three mutually reinforcing priorities: (P1) Smart Growth: developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation; (P2) Sustainable Growth: Promoting a more resource efficient, greener and more competitive economy; (P3) Inclusive Growth: Promoting a high-employment economy delivering social and territorial cohesion. In the context of EUROPE 2020, the Smart Specialisation Strategy in Latvia (RIS3) has been set up and introduced as a strategic document for the development of support mechanisms of high value-added economic growth, including the maritime technology sector. The present study explores the mechanisms for the introduction of Blue Growth and RIS3 Strategies, which should be used to develop the maritime technology industry by assessing the efficiency of these mechanisms. Thus, the study addresses the issues of the implementation of modern technologies in the coastal municipalities and planning regions of Latvia.

scholarly journals Intelligent Growth and Macroeconomic Performance of EU Member Countries in the Framework of Europe 2020

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Papailiou Paraskevi ◽  
Komninos Dimitrios ◽  
Dermatis Zacharias ◽  
Anastasiou Athanasios ◽  
Liargovas Panagiotis
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Growth Index ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
Macroeconomic Indicators ◽  
The Impact

Europe 2020 is the new ten-year strategy of the European Union for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. This work analyzes the role of smart growth within the Europe 2020 strategy. "Smart growth" means strengthening knowledge and innovation by improving the quality of education, enhancing research performance, promoting innovation and transferring knowledge across the EU.In this study we create a thematic smart growth index, which consists of individual indicators proposed by the European Commission and presents the ranking of EU member countries in this index. The composite indicator of Europe 2020 by Pasimeni (2011) is taken as the basis for the creation of the indicator.Then, with the help of regression models, the relationship between the index and some macroeconomic variables is examined to examine the impact of the variables on the performance of the E-28 countries and their overall competitiveness. The results show that macroeconomic indicators of public finances, such as the rate of change in GDP per capita, government debt and deficit levels, are not key success factors for smart growth.

scholarly journals Competitiveness of EU Member States Regarding the Implementation of the Europe 2020 Strategy Assumptions

VUZF Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 158-168
Author(s):  
Alina Walenia
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
Eu Regions

The Europe 2020 Strategy occupies a prominent place in the European Union's (EU) cohesion policy as a long-term programme for social and economic advancement. The main objective of the strategy is to implement the idea of smart, sustainable and inclusive development. An important priority implemented by EU countries in the context of implementing the assumptions of the Europe 2020 strategy is smart growth, i.e., the development of an economy based on knowledge and innovation. This requires significant spending on research and development and the use of mechanisms that enable the rapid transfer of theoretical knowledge into economic practice. The Europe 2020 strategy has set new targets for increasing competitiveness and accelerating the development of EU regions and countries. For all regions, including the economically weakest ones, the implementation of the Europe 2020 Strategy goals has been an important stimulus for the development and increase in competitiveness of EU regions. The decade just ending justifies carrying out assessments that must be intricately linked to the analysis of indicators set by the European Commission within the framework of the strategy's three priorities, i.e., smart, sustainable and inclusive development. The aim of the article is to assess the degree of implementation of the assumptions of the Europe 2020 Strategy in EU Member States. With the use of a synthetic indicator calculated using a multidimensional comparative analysis based on the Hellwig method, a ranking of EU countries, in terms of implementing the Europe 2020 Strategy assumptions, was established. The main indicators proposed by Eurostat for monitoring the Europe 2020 Strategy were applied for the assessment. As a result of the conducted research, conclusions were formulated regarding the importance of the Europe 2020 Strategy in the implementation of the cohesion policy principles in EU Member States. The research results show that the countries that have achieved the best results in the implementation of the assumptions of the Europe 2020 Strategy are also leaders in the ranking of competitiveness taking GDP per capita into account published by the European Commission.

scholarly journals Poland’s Innovativeness Against The Background Of EU Countries (Recent Research Results)

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-35
Author(s):  
Bożena Mikołajczyk
Keyword(s):  
Smart Growth ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Lisbon Strategy ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
The Eu

Innovativeness in Europe has been a formulated goal of the EU since the Lisbon Strategy. One of the goals of the new Europe 2020 Strategy is smart growth, i.e. growth based on knowledge and innovation. This requires improving the quality of education and research results, the transfer of knowledge and innovations between countries, and broader commercialization of research results. Hence, the measurement of innovation evolves in order to reflect the factors that determine the level of innovativeness of economies. The purpose of this paper is to present the level of Poland’s innovativeness against the background of the EU countries, using the SII (Summary Innovation Index).

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