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Ekon Ukr. 2018 (8): 75–87
https://doi.org/10.15407/economyukr.2018.08.075

PROBLEMS OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND DECENTRALIZATION

УДК 332.146:330.341.1

SNIGOVA Olena1

1Institute for Economics and Forecasting of NAS of Ukraine
OrcID ID : https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/ 0000-0001-7456-4894


SMART SPECIALIZATION POTENTIAL REVEALING FOR THE OVERCOMING OF REGIONAL STRUCTURAL INERTNESS IN UKRAINE


Prerequisites for the formation and development of the smart specialization concept in the EU are researched. The author identified the main characteristics of the smart specialization and its focus on mitigating the regional problems that impeded the realization of regional potential and discouraged the technological changes in the basic sectors of regional economy. It is found that entrepreneurial insight is the main principle of smart specialization, differentiating this innovative approach to priorities of the regional development setting from the previous ones.
European practice of the smart specialization implementation is analyzed as based on the precise establishment of its correlation with the principal elements of the European policy of economic growth: regional, industrial and innovational components. The process of introducing the smart specialization in Ukraine is also being considered. Its specific features are revealed, touching upon the usage of the smart specialization approaches taking into account the regional specifics of the industrial development of the country. Inexpediency and unjustifiedness of the predominance of industrial component over other aspects of the smart specialization concept is justified. Proposals are made to improve the use of the smart specialization approaches, aimed at its becoming an instrument of a new regional policy, in Ukraine’s state policy.


Keywords:smart specialization; regional development; diversification; European Union; Ukraine

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