The ninth SmartEIZ Workshop named Global Value Chain in the context of Research Innovation Strategy and Global Industry 4.0 was held from 16th to 17th of April 2018 in Zagreb. The first day was dedicated to theoretical and policy context of Global Value Chain. The second day was focused on the policy context of implementation of…
The two days training workshop, held in Maastricht from 21 to 22 March 2018, covered a range of theoretical and empirical issues related to science-industry linkages. The first day was an academic day, first focusing on science-industry linkages research in general, followed by research focused on Croatia in particular, and ending with a panel discussion. The second…
Dr Ivana Rašić Bakarić from the Institute of Economics, Zagreb prepared a report on survey on Croatian Wood Cluster (CWC). Results of the online survey conducted among the members of a CWC were presented to interested stakeholders and published in scientific publications. This report is a summary of main findings. Among other things, it presents…
Dr Dubravka Jurlina Alibegović from the Institute of Economics, Zagreb and Mislav Šagovac, a PhD candidate at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business prepared report entitled Evaluating Smart City Indicators: A tool for Strategic Decision-making for Croatian Large Cities. The report is available here.
Horizon 2020 Twinning project ‘SmartEIZ’ SmartEIZ Conference “Smart Specialization Strategies: Contemporary Challenges of its Design and Implementation” September 25–26, 2018 The Institute of Economics, Zagreb Background The global financial crisis was a trigger that had an influence on the economic policy on a national level all over the globe. EU sent a unique message to…
Timeline of SmartEIZ project activities has been updated and is available here.
The ‘Entrepreneurship and knowledge-based economy’ training workshop, held from 14th to 15th February 2018 at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, covered the state of the art research in the field, starting from an overview of the concept of knowledge-based economy, and the dynamics of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship. It continued to the discussion of measurement issues,…
Julia Korosteleva, Senior Lecturer in Business Economics at SSEES, University College London, delivered fourth SmartEIZ Visiting Training Session on multilevel modelling. The purpose of this course was to introduce EIZ staff to the key concepts and methodology of multilevel modelling (ML) and to illustrate various applications of ML modelling in empirical research, using STATA software.…
The third Visiting Training Session was held from 5th to 9th January 2018 at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb. This VTS was on panel data analysis. In order to fully appreciate the theoretical and econometric underpinnings of panel data analysis this VTS develops a fully-fledged module starting form a description of databases in panel form,…
Visiting Training Session on bibliometric and patent analysis was held at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb from 22th to 26th January 2018. The focus of this VTS was on different types of databases and their characteristics, patent data and patent database for business intelligence, patent data analysis examples (in Adriatic area and Italian patenting from…