UDC 332.146:330.341.1; JEL R13, R58
Sozanskyy, L. (2021). Yevropeys'kyy dosvid analizu napryamiv smart-spetsializatsiyi rehioniv (na prykladi pol's'kykh voyevodstv) [European experience in analyzing the directions of regional smart specialization (on the example of Polish voivodeships)]. In Sotsial'no-ekonomichni problemy suchasnoho periodu Ukrayiny [Socio-Economic Problems of the Modern Period of Ukraine]: Vol. 147 (1) (pp. 53-58). DOI: https://doi.org/10.36818/2071-4653-2021-1-9. [in Ukrainian].
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Authors



Sozanskyy Lyubomyr Yosypovych

Ph.D. of Economics, Senior Researcher

Senior Researcher, Scientific Secretary of the unit of the Department of problems of the real sector of regions' economy of the Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine

Contacts: lubomir4370@gmail.com, ls.ird2@ukr.net

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Resume

The elaboration of regional development strategies using the methodology of smart specialization is one of the most important areas of modern economics and economic practice. The aim of the article is to improve the methodological basis for selecting potential areas of smart specialization at the meso level based on the experience in regional strategizing. To achieve this goal, the article highlights the methodological approaches to the analysis of areas of smart specialization of Polish voivodeships. The article emphasizes that indicators that reflect innovation and socio-economic efficiency, competitiveness, and impact of each economic activity on economic development take the main place in the methodological approaches to assessing the areas of smart specialization of the regions of Poland and other EU countries. Potential niches of smart specialization are identified through a comprehensive analysis, which includes indicators that reflect the qualitative characteristics of each type of economic activity and are characterized by a high degree of objectivity. Indicators are mostly statistical, and surveys and expert opinions are involved in the analysis at the stages where they are relevant and have substantive value, complementing the statistics. Taking into account the approaches to the analysis of the smart specialization directions of the Polish voivodeships considered in the article will improve the methodological bases of the choice of potential smart specialization spheres of the regions of Ukraine. At the same time, the paper emphasizes that the methodological approaches to the analysis of areas of smart specialization used by Polish voivodeships, regions of other EU countries, as well as Ukraine, are not without drawbacks. In particular, a certain pattern in the choice of areas of smart specialization is the most characteristic negative feature of the vast majority of regional strategies.

Keywords:

regional strategies, smart specialization, types of economic activity, innovation

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