To establish globally competitive economies new EU member states need to accelerate the development of private services and the modernisation of public services. Increased innovativeness in public and private services is of utmost importance in achieving progress and strengthening of cooperation networks between suppliers of public and private services. New member states should avoid to only imitate practices of more advanced EU countries, but to introduce innovative mechanisms that suit best the absorption capacity of private and public actors and broader environment of their countries.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29376605
Covergence in services development in the EU27 is a long term process that is influenced by efficient market competition, efficient institutions, availability of human resources with adequate knowledge and skills, in addition to traditional factors. The absence of convergence of those countries in knowledge intensive services development clearly reflects the importance of the above mentioned factors. One can expect that development models in individual new member states will differ from both the Anglo-Saxon and the Nordic model and will approximate closer to one or another model.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30181469
Emerging markets are increasingly recognised for their own multinational enterprises (MNEs). In their home economies, the largest MNEs have considerable weight in employment, exports and value added creation, while their greater integration in international value chains and global market trends also promote changes in home economies. Analysis of the sample of the largest Slovenian MNEs shows that they are relatively more stable and that during the crisis they recorded lower reduction of sales and employment.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29770845
It was expected that during its EU Presidency Slovenia would invest a considerable amount of energy in the so-called Western Balkans agenda. Our analysis has shown that Slovenia has successfully kept the item on the EU agenda. Moreover, during its Presidency it achieved some measurable results, notably with regard to Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Whether and to what extent these two countries will be able to materialize Slovenian efforts in practice is yet to be seen.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30034013
The paper analyses determinants of Slovenian firms’ ability to innovate and the impact of innovation on firms’ productivity growth using firm-level data for 1996-2002. The results show that firms’ own R&D expenditures as well as external knowledge spillovers, foreign ownership and intra-sector innovation spillovers foster the ability of firms to innovate. In the second step, the paper estimates the impact of firms' innovations on productivity growth. Here, the results are not robust to different econometric approaches.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29519709