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Lecturer(s)
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Juknevičiene Vita, Assoc. prof. Ph.D.
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Joniškiene Jurgita, Assoc. prof. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The introduction to public-private partnership and innovation management. Cooperative models for effective public-private partnerships. Challenges for managing public-private partnership contracts. The national innovation policy in regions and regional innovation systems. Innovations strategies and environment. Open innovation for regional development. Absorptive capacity development in a regional innovation system. Partnerships as systems of innovations: cross-sectoral knowledge platforms, innovation networks, clusters and other regional initiatives. Public-private partnership in research and for sustainable innovations. Changing environment for public-private partnership for regional innovations: global, regional and local issues
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Řízená praxe
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to acquaint students with strengths and weaknesses of targeted policies, generated in public and private sectors, regional innovation systems? qualitative and quantitative development opportunities, based on knowledge and innovation, and to render suggestions for the improvement of public and private sectors? innovation performance.Students will be able to identify specifics of the innovation process and analyse partial problems of publicprivate partnership in regional innovations, they will understand causes and problems of specificity of innovative performance?s organizing at the regional or local level, know how to evaluate models of subjects? performance in different innovative environments. Students will obtain the knowledge how to use in practice possibilities, given by trends for a public-private partnership development, based on processes of sustainable development and research development.
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Prerequisites
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A student who successfully completed the subject can identify links between the aspects of public-private partnership conception and knowledge economy requirements for regions and their development. A student who successfully completed the subject is able to identify and analyze determinants of specificity of innovative performance's organizing at the regional or local level, and to recognize specifics of the innovation process, features of planning and management, seeking for the region's development. The student who successfully completed the course is be able to identify a partnership as the innovation system, based on sectorial and institutional networking and clustering, and to provide trends for a public-private partnership development, based on processes of sustainable development and research development. A student who successfully completed the subject will adjust to constantly changing situations of professional performance as well as content of performance, will acquire abilities of analytical, systemic, critical and creative thinking, will be able to solve problems and work in groups.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
assessment, exam The assignment is grated uppon positive evaluation of the assigned tasks during the seminars. The examination is in written or oral form.
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Recommended literature
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COOKE, P., ASHEIM, B., BOSCHMA, R., MARTIN, R., SCHWARTZ, D., TÖDTLING, F. (2013. Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing..
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COOKE, P. (2012). Re-framing Regional Development: Evolution, Innovation and Transition (Regions and Cities). London: Routledge..
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GRANIERI, M., RENDA, A. (2012). Innovation Law and Policy in European Union. Towards Horizon 2020. Rome: Springer-Verlad Italia..
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LINK, A. N. (2006). Public/Private Partnerships. Innovation Strategies and Policy Alternatives. Singapure: Springer Science+Business Media, Inc..
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MAURRASSE, D. J. (2013). Strategic Public Private Partnerships: Innovation and Development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing..
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MOULAERT, F. et al. (2013). The international handbook on social innovation: collective action, social learning and transdisciplinary research. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar..
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PATTBERG, P., BIERMANN, F., CHAN, S., MERT, A. (2012. Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Emergence, Influence and Legitimacy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing..
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PORTER, O. W. (2008). Public/Private Partnerships for Local Governments. Bloomington: Authorhous..
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RICKNE, A., LAESTADIUS, S., ETZKOWITZ, H. (2012). Innovation Governance in an Open Economy: Shaping Regional Nodes in a Globalized World (Regions and Cities). London: Routledge..
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YONG, H. K. (2010). Public-Private Partnerships Policy and Practice: A Reference Guide. London: Commonwealth Secretariat..
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