SmartEIZ Innovation Prize was awarded to the best paper submitted to the SmartEIZ conference. The idea was to gather the papers that were created during 9 training workshops where various participants presented their scientific papers. To form a team of researchers from leading institutions at SmartEIZ and to propose one of these papers for the…
Visiting training session ‘Big Data and Network Analysis: Focus on Bibliometric and Patent Analysis of Croatian Data’ was held at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb from 16th to 18th May 2018. Gianluca Tarasconi and Roberto Mavilia from ICRIOS Bocconi covered following topics: Introduction to Big Data Introduction to Network Analysis R environment as tool for…
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…
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…
Second visiting training session was held from 11th to 15th December 2017 at The Institute of Economics, Zagreb. Prof Anthony Arundel from UNU-MERIT delivered an intermediate mini-course on survey design and implementation. The course provided instructions on how to design and implement a survey, from initial preparation to data editing. This course was followed by…
Training Workshop on evaluations of innovation policies will be held at The Institute of Economics, Zagreb from 21 to 22 November 2017. This two days training workshop is devoted to the evaluation of innovation policies. Day one is more suited to policy makers, but can also be very interesting for economic researchers and advanced students. Various…
Visiting Training Session (VTS) ‘Firm level data analysis’ was held from 9th to 11th October 2017 at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb. This VTS included three lectures by Dr Micheline Goedhuys on Micro data sources for innovation and firm performance analysis, Innovation and performance: issues in empirical modelling and Impact evaluation of innovation policies, methods…
Forthcoming two-day Smart Skills Training Workshop (TW) is going to be held on October 30 and 31, 2017 at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb. This specialized TW will be related to upgrading Skills within Smart Specialization Strategy (S3) in Croatia. Key focus of this TW is exploring various aspects of skills policy (designing and implementing) related…