Radovi Zavoda za znanstvenoistraživački i umjetnički rad u Bjelovaru

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Authors: Vladimir Strugar

Uvodne riječi: Znanstveno savjetovanje Bjelovarsko-bilogorska županija: razvoj temeljen na znanju

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Authors: Jadranka Švarc

The starting point of this paper is the need for an accelerated development of the Bjelovar-Bilogora County, which, with regard to the global competition, should be based on products and services with a higher level of added value; such development, therefore, demands the use of innovation, knowledge and training. The development of these factors indicates that the Bjelovar-Bilogora County strives towards developing an economy of knowledge, which should be adjusted to the regional competences in the production-related, technological, research, innovation and administrative aspects. The development of the economy of knowledge in the Bjelovar-Bilogora County should hence be based on creating a regional innovation system (RIS), which stimulates the modernisation of existing activities and technology not necessarily based on science and research, but rather on incremental innovations and the intellectual capital, and can therefore be the holders of the County’s development. Wishing to contribute to these strivings, the paper endeavours to explain both the term and the emergence of the economy of knowledge, and of the economic theories that have given the same economy of knowledge its current meaning. Further follows the description of the origin and the importance of the innovation system, and the innovation policy as a practical mechanism held by public policies, aiming at creating the preconditions for economic growth based on innovations and knowledge. There is an emphasis on the importance of introducing a regional innovation policy as a complement to the existing innovation policy in Croatia, which is planned and coordinated mainly at the central national level. A brief survey of the innovation policy and the innovation system in Croatia so far, as well as lessons to be drawn in relation to the regional innovation policy within the Bjelovar-Bilogora County, are offered. The paper further suggests a turn from the current national innovation system towards a dual innovation system that presupposes, on the one hand, the encouragement of innovations based on research and development, and on the other hand, the encouragement of a system of innovations based on technological competences of firms, which – basically – represents the building of regional innovation systems, including the Bjelovar-Bilogora County.

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Authors: Tatjana Badrov

During the last two decades, considerable changes took place in the economy; these changes have exercised major impact on the work market. In the Bjelovar-Bilogora County, a high level of unemployment is present, particularly among young persons with no work experience, and there is an increase in the share of persons having been unemployed for a long period in the total unemployment statistics. The fact remains that the supply of work force does not fulfil the needs of the economy. In 2006, a research of the needs for additional knowledge and skills in the economy sector of the Bjelovar-Bilogora County was conducted. A sample of 1,594 firms and businesses was analysed to find out in which areas additional knowledge and skills of present and future employees and entrepreneurs in firms and businesses were needed, and to determine the correlation between the developmental plans of the entrepreneurs on the one hand and the needs for additional knowledge and skills on the other. It was established there was a slight correlation between business development plans and employment plans. It was further established that no statistically significant difference existed in the areas, in which additional knowledge and skills of present and future employees were needed. The entrepreneurs do recognise whether there is a need for additional knowledge and skills of present and future employees. Business development plans are tighter linked to the needs for additional knowledge and skills of present and future employees, though the entrepreneurs are not prepared to participate in the realisation of training programmes for students and workers. The entrepreneurs estimate that their own knowledge and skills are not adequate; however, they have demonstrated no notable level of interest in attending training programmes. A very important determinant in the County’s economic development is to harmonise the work market supply with the demands of the economy. The key issue in the context of linking the local educational and economic subsystems is therefore primarily the need to intensify the training programmes for entrepreneurs. The knowledge of techniques and methods for planning business operation and employment, the analysis of jobs and its linking to the demands related to jobs, for which employees need to dispose of additional knowledge and skills, may ensure higher-quality information regarding the adjustment of training programmes at all levels.

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Authors: Vladimir Strugar

The author tackles the needs, possibilities and accomplishments regarding the adult education in the Bjelovar-Bilogora County, and addresses them jointly as the second opportunity for education. In the theoretical approach, the fundaments of the knowledge-based society/economy, the concept of life-long learning, and particularly the adult education as a part of this concept are analysed. In the empirical approach, the needs for the adult education are defined based on the analysis of the educational qualification level of the population; the employed generally, and particularly those working in primary, secondary and tertiary economic sectors; the unemployed persons; and students terminating their secondary education. Further, the possibilities for the adult education are described, primarily those offered within the following programmes of open universities and secondary schools: primary education finishing; secondary education finishing; training; retraining; specialisation; and foreign language learning. By comparing the rather significant needs for the adult education with the realisation of the programme, it may be concluded that the inadequate involvement of adults in the learning/education process and the adult education in the County do not work as a unique subsystem, by the means of which the second opportunity for education might be realised in an organised and a systematic manner.

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Authors: Vladimir Strugar

Osvrti i prikazi: Znanstveno i raznoliko Radovi Zavoda za znanstvenoistraživački i umjetnički rad u Bjelovaru. Svezak 2. Zagreb - Bjelovar: Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, 2008.