Radovi Zavoda za znanstvenoistraživački i umjetnički rad u Bjelovaru

IX-XIII

Authors: Vladimir Strugar; Slobodan Kaštela

U četrnaestom broju časopisa Radovi Zavoda za znanstvenoistraživački i umjetnički rad u Bjelovaru objavljeno je dvanaest članaka, od čega deset s održanih znanstvenih skupova koji su održani 2018. i 2019. godine. Pripremljene su i poruke sudionika znanstvenog skupa Gospodarstvo Bjelovarsko-bilogorske županije: kojim putem ići? (2019.) te članak Značajan prilog historiografiji i publicističkoj literaturi o prošlosti Grubišnog Polja u rubrici Prikazi i osvrti. Časopis još sadrži Kazalo ključnih riječi na hrvatskom i engleskom jeziku i Upute suradnicima (autorima i recenzentima) na hrvatskom i engleskom jeziku.

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Authors: Guste Santini

The objective of the paper is to indicate the wider context that should be taken into consideration when conducting a reform of the existing system of relationship between the local authorities and the central authority. The paper identifies not only the limitations, but also the possibilities available to the holders of the reform of the relationship between the local authorities and the central authority. Furthermore, the paper particularly stresses the necessity of respecting the relationship of the system towards the subsystems and the elements thereof as a necessary prerequisite for the introduction of a new system of satisfactory entropy level. The share of public income exceeds the tax capacity of the Croatian economy. Since, on the one hand, the existing tax pressure is unsustainable, it is, on the other hand, necessary to considerably increase the share of the local administration and self-administration in the income collected from taxes. By becoming a member state of the European Union, Croatia has waived one part of its national sovereignty. Abandoning national sovereignty in general redefines the system and the politics, which for its part makes the existing relationship between the central authority and the local authorities counterproductive. In order to reduce development-related differences among counties, and to secure the minimal standard of public goods for all citizens, it is necessary to establish a new system starting from the market state. The existing system regarding the relationship between the central authority and the local authorities was unsatisfactory in the circumstances of the national state. In a market state, it is unsustainable as such. In a market state, counties ought to take over the responsibility for the development of economy in their areas in order to 1) increase tax capacity that 2) enables a larger quantity and diversity of public goods. Though introducing economic principles into specifying the relationship between the central authority and the local authorities does not mean giving up interregional, interpersonal and intergenerational solidarity, their relationship ought to be based on the principles of competitiveness growth, as a foundation of the survival and development of any market state. The paper proposes a change in the approach to observing the problems, and the manner of solving economic issues at state level; possible solutions regarding the relationship between the central authority and the local authorities may thereby be observed and derived in order to actualise the necessary public goods within democratic processes, whereby the public sector should not jeopardize the competitiveness of the economy. The paper furthermore stresses the need to define the minimal standard of public goods at state level ensured by the central authority, accompanied by stimuli (including the intervention-related ones) granted by the counties, which are meant to accelerate the development and present the starting point for the equality of all the citizens of Croatia.

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Authors: Jadranka Švarc; Jasminka Lažnjak

The aim of this paper is to critically analyze the evolution of development paradigms to explain the changes in the concept of innovation and innovation policy that have occurred in the last ten years, and how these changes affect the development model of the County of Bjelovar -Bilogora (BBC), but also of Croatia as a whole. The research starts from the thesis that the last decade has witnessed the rise of a new development paradigm based on the concept of entrepreneurial economy in which the dynamics of entrepreneurship, flexibility and heterogeneity of ideas play a key role in economic development. The change in the development paradigm was preceded by a weakening of the concept of knowledge economy, and a shift from research-based innovation and high technology to entrepreneurial innovation as factors for economic growth and competitiveness. Less developed regions, such as BBC, which hardly compete in the field of high technology and technological innovation, have thus acquired a new development paradigm in which economic progress depends on the dynamics of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial innovation. The development of a new innovation paradigm in Croatia has been largely supported by the European Cohesion Policy, i.e. the Smart specialization strategy that sees the development of science and technological progress mainly in the context of regional development and within strengthening the local entrepreneurial competences. The research finds that BBC should ground its development on an entrepreneurial ecosystem with funding from the European Structural Funds, the basis of which the BBC in the past five years has made significant economic progress. The research is based on a critical conceptual analysis and used a qualitative methodology, mostly qualitative thematic analysis.

93-114

Authors: Željko Karaula

This paper offers a brief survey of the industry in Bjelovar during the socijalist period (1945–1990), with the aim of and focus on explaining and presenting the crisis of the socialist model of government in the late 1980s and the economic transition of three major companies in Bjelovar active in this period (Koestlin; Tomo Vinković; Sirela) to new, private-market businesses following the downfall of Yugoslavia and after the formation of the independent Croatian state. This phase was a difficult one for all three companies; the result was that two of them have survived in the new circumstances, whilst one has not. The choice of the subject companies in this paper as examples of the economic transition of Bjelovar has been partial, so that the conclusions may not be applied to the entire economy of Bjelovar in the socialist period, which has, to the most part, not managed to survive the Croatian model of the economic transition era.

149-182

Authors: Rudolf Kiralj

Students’ honesty is a key element in the context of academic honesty, when taking into consideration that the share of academically educated persons is in permanent increase. Students are the future moving power of the society; they are the part of the population that will significantly influence the society on the whole and its socio-economic development, including the younger generations. The paper analyses eight groups of data on the constant growth of students’ dishonesty in the world, and particularly in the USA, the United Kingdom and Sweden. Over the last two decades, a significant increase has been recorded. The situation in Croatia has been compared with these trends on the basis of the data gained by studying various sources from literature and the internet, as well as several estimates. As a result, the following students’ dishonesty indices have been defined: average (IC0) and maximal (IC1) cheating at exams, and average (IP0) and maximal (IP1) plagiarism. The indices mainly follow global trends, whilst over the last two decades, the average percentage of students engaging in dishonest activities has been alarmingly high: 64 % (IC0); 76 % (IC1); 33 % (IP0) and 77 % (IP1). Data according to five socio-economic indices have been collected and estimated: GDP (gross domestic product per capita), HDI (human development index), GII (global innovation index), CPI (corruption perception index), and EI (education index). By the means of weighing correlation and regression, it has been determined that IC0, IC1, IP0 and IP1 are different indices; that IP0 and IP1 do not correlate well with time and the socio-economic variables due to an insufficient quantity of data on students’ plagiarism; that IC0 and IC1 correlate well with time, GDP, HDI and EI. Furthermore, IC0 and IC1 have modestly decreased over the last several years; and IP0 and IP1 have demonstrated no decrease at all. The dependence of IC0 and IC1 on GDP, HDI and EI has been presented by two sigmoid curves, with a minor increase around 1980, and a major around 2010. Since students’ dishonesty and its growth have been socially determined, the culture itself ought to be changed – from the culture of profit, competition and success to the culture of knowledge and responsibility, with pronounced social and moral components of the socio-economic development.

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Authors: Vladimir Strugar; Slobodan Kaštela

Preporuke sudionika nakon izlaganja i rasprave sa znanstvenog skupa Gospodarstvo Bjelovarsko-bilogorske županije: kojim putem ići? koji je održan 6. lipnja 2019. u Bjelovaru.

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Authors: Goran Jakovljević

The symbolism of the Egg may be followed through cosmogonic myths in many civilisations, which are similar among themselves and show that they share the same roots in certain segments. The roots of the Western civilizational circle are to be found in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Syrian and the Palestinian countries, as well as in the Aegean (Balkan-Anatolian) cultural sphere. As a result of the contact with other civilizational circles, a kind of transfer of these influences on a lot wider geographic areas took place, as well as cyclic synergy came about. By comparing various cosmogonic myths, the conclusion may be drawn that the Egg is the primordial state of Cosmos, with Chaos within, from which the first Germ of Life stems (nature; gods; humans). The meaning of the original symbol of the Egg got lost in the course of time, so that only its importance with respect to the abundance and the cyclic restoration of life in nature, and the afterlife and resurrection in religion remained.

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Authors: Vladimir Strugar

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