Journal of Research and Innovation for Sustainable Society

11-15

Authors: Živojin B. Prokopović, Karolina S. Prokopović, Borivoje B. Prokopović

Today the categories: technological innovation, productivity growth, changes in production organization, market liberalization, the changed role and importance of the state and consumerism, which has become the dominant cultural pattern, are increasingly being questioned. Taken together or individually, these categories have been celebrated over the past decades as an expression of the freedom that has been imposed as a fundamental value and measure of human progress. Since then, centuries have passed, and here we are in an era called the "Fourth Industrial Revolution." Serbia is well known to have missed two technological revolutions in the past almost three decades and would finally have to join the fourth. The transition to Industry 4.0, i.e. the complete digitization of complete industrial production, is a chance for faster economic growth, further dynamic export growth and job creation. The silent digital revolution is, therefore, underway in Serbia today, and it is closely watching this process

26-31

Authors: Dan Săvescu

Paper presents some aspects regarding the protection of innovative ideas. All the research results of people involved in this activity must be protected by law against counterfeiting and piracy. It should be borne in mind that there are issues of novelty and license papers / dissertation of students, not only at the level of doctoral training. So university policies on intellectual property knowledge should include acquiring of knowledge ever since the II-III study year.

41-46

Authors: Costel Bucataru, Dan Savescu

Air pollution means the presence in the air or in the atmosphere of foreign compounds of their normal composition, which at a certain concentration and depending on the time of action it generates disturbances in the natural balance, affecting human health and comfort or the flora's living environment and wildlife. The influence of some laws can change the air quality in a positive or negative way. The cancellation of the environmental stamp allowed the registration of hundreds of thousands of very old and very polluting cars in Romania. The consequence of such a decision was analysed in Brasov, which is a tourist city in central part of Romania.

51-60

Authors: Marian Zaharia

The education in Romania is facing in the last decades a series of problems both at system level and within its components. One of these problems is the loss of pre-university school population from level 1 to level 3 of education. They are differentiated by gender as well as by macroregions, development regions and counties. Based on these considerations, the paper presents the magnitude of the losses of school population during the transition from one level of education to another and highlights the extent of this phenomenon during the period 2009 - 2017. Thus at national level, among those who were in 2009 in the level 1 of training, in 2017 in level 3 of training their number had decreased by 39% for the male school population and by 15% for the female gender school population. The paper also highlights the fact that the losses of pre-university school population during the three levels of education differ fundamentally from one county to another, reaching in some cases over 60%.

66-72

Authors: Amine Ghoumrassi, Habib Kabalan, Gabriela Tigu

With the continuous development of the international market, third world countries find themselves having to face the effects of globalization and fight against international companies. Third world countries’ local industries and companies must catch up with the current technologies and strategies to be able to stand a chance in the current world set up and ensure their financial security and maintain their share of the local market. North African companies and in particular Algerian companies started to organize regular meetings and workshops to stay up to date with the modern ways of management, reducing costs and having an efficient process. This became an essential point for the Algerian companies to survive globalization and the presence of international companies in the local market. Supply chain management, according to the literature reviews, proved to be a great success influencer in this matter. Algerians small and mid-sized companies are now moving toward the usage of supply chain management to decrease their operational costs as well as their overall costs, increase their market share, improve their financial turnaround, and ensure their safety in the tight competition from the big conglomerates of multinational companies. The aim of this paper is to study and highlight the impact of supply chain management on the processes of the Algerian small and mid-sized companies. The impact will be measured by financial data provided by the company “El Auras” in a comparative table showcasing the difference between the financial data before and after the implementation of supply chain management. To backup the numbers, a non-instructed interview has been carried at the company, a total of 22 managers from different departments participated in the interview process; the results were coded and labelled using Nvivo software to easily analyze them.

83-86

Authors: Andrei Ghimiși

The paper wishes to examine how did Nicolae Ceausescu legitimate himself in power during his rule as the leader of Romania between the years 1965-1989. One of the most important aspects is regarding Ceausescu and his cult, which will develop over the years, going from 1968 and his refusal to invade Czechoslovakia to his visits in North Korea and China where he saw firsthand the full extent of such a concept, the leader and his persona will always evolve until 1989. Other methods were also used by the leader to legitimate himself in the eyes of the Romanian people as the one true leader