The Department of Economics and Accounting (DE&A) groups 9 scientists, including 2 professors and 7 Ph. D. Sc. These specialists are working on: science-industry linkages, national and regional innovation systems, determinants of economic growth and development (primarily related to R&D, innovations, cooperation in clusters, the efficiency and productivity of R&D), problems of sustainable development, various aspects of economic decision making, importance of human and social capital and technology for economic growth and development, economics of transport, the use of mathematical and econometric methods to evaluate the effectiveness and economic growth, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its reporting, financial and management accounting and tax problems in NGO’s, valuation of assets and liabilities in accounting, accounting behavioral aspects.
The expertise offered includes:
- cluster development strategy;
- regional development strategy;
- financial and economic analyses of enterprises and NGO’s;
- analysis of clusters relationships within bioeconomy and other smart specialization;
- assessment of efficiency and productivity of the regional innovation systems;
- assessment of development strategies of cities and municipalities;
- research and analytical services (with respect to functional projects for implementation of IR ERP-class systems);
- formulation and revision for development programmes concerning social capital;
- research and analytical services in the field of innovation in European Union countries (in micro, meso and macroscale) and its determinants.
The group is interested in cooperation in the field:
- sustainable development in the EU countries, determinants, goals, effectiveness;
- innovativeness of the economy and enterprises;
- effectiveness of R&D and innovative activities;
- national and regional innovation systems, science and industry linkages;
- clusters - functioning, strategies, innovation in the food and chemical industries;
- measuring and evaluating effectiveness and productivity (quantitative and qualitative research);
- long-term economic growth - determinants, the use of statistical and econometric methods to study growth factors;
- challenges of the world economy;
- social capital.
Thematic area - Cluster in Horizon Europe: 6. Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment.