Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/219602 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Institute of Economic Research Working Papers No. 42/2014
Publisher: 
Institute of Economic Research (IER), Toruń
Abstract (Translated): 
Regional and local development results from a complex interaction of many factors, including the development policy. Development priorities, contained in the strategic documents such as regional innovation strategies, emphasise building up the region's competitive advantage by identifying and developing regional specialisations. Regions need to identify their strengths and weaknesses and they have to rely strongly on innovation to develop. The aim of the paper is to undertake a diagnostic assessment of the specialisations of Poland's provinces, and also to validate that, in the context of the regional innovation policy, on the example of the swietokrzyskie province. The paper employs the Krugman dissimilarity index, which is computed on the basis of a comparison of a given region's economic structure with average structure of other regions.
Subjects: 
economic development of the country
regional innovation policy
regional specialisation
Krugman index
JEL: 
A11
B16
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Document Type: 
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