T OWARDS I NTEGRATION OF FORMER SOCIALIST E CONOMIES IN CEE WITH EU: FOCUSING ON KNOWLEDGE...
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- T OWARDS I NTEGRATION OF FORMER SOCIALIST E CONOMIES IN CEE
WITH EU: FOCUSING ON KNOWLEDGE POTENTIALS AND U NIVERSITY -I
NDUSTRY C OOPERATION Prof. em.dr.dr.h.c. Sung-Jo Park Free
University Berlin
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- T ABLE OF C ONTENTS 1. Theoretical Discourses 2. Interreg
development of peripheries 3. perception of natural sciences and
mathematics in CEE : connotation of talent 4. reform of higher
education and private universities as system transformation 5.
Endogenous Development (metropolitanization) 5.1. Talsinki 5.2.
Centrope 6. Exogenous Development 1: Foreign Direct Investment in
Balkan (Serbia) 7. Exogenous Development 2:Access to Knowledge
Potentials the Case of Samsung 7. Conclusion
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- 1. T HEORETICAL D ISCOURSES 1. Industrialization-related
dichotomy -hirschmans unbalanced growth (creation of unbalance)
-von thuenens centrality (traffic center) -deutschs gravitation
(absorption of bigger power) -perrouxs pole de croissance (spread
effect) 2. Digital economy-centered dichotomy -floridas creative
class leading to new center technology- talent-tolerance -landrys
creative city (new cultural city) - industrial policy creating new
centers -industry-university forming new clusters Comprehensive
theory?
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- 2. I NTERREG DEVELOPMENT OF PERIPHERIES T AXONOMY 1. subsidized
strategy-EU-Border Region Development (1989) Goals : border region
development, transnational development, interregional development
-baltic sea region programme, 2007-2013 -EUSAIR (EU Strategy for
the Adriatic and Inonian Seas) 2. endogenous strategy -Talsinki
(Tallinn + Helsinki) -CENTROPE (Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Tschec:
Vienna + Bratislava)
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- 3. EU-initiated Balkan region development strategy
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- 3. P ERCEPTION OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS IN FORMER
SOCIALIST ECONOMIES 1. socialist ideology not allowing for
humanities and social sciences 2. equalization of gender 3.
Mathematic Olympiade before 1989: Russia, Bulgaria, Romania,
Hungary, East Germany (American Mathematical Society 2008) 4. IMO
Ranking (2013): China, SK, USA, Russia.. Most CEE countries among
30 best
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- 4. R EFORM OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES Reform
goals: 1. de-politicizing, de-ideologizigng especially in
humanities and social sciences 2. Capitalism learning: shortage of
teaching staffs 3. Bologna Process
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- P RIVATE UNIVERSITIES 1. confessional universities (e.g.
dimitrie cantemir catholic university in romania) 2. international
universities in rom, bul,pol, serb. Hun. by americans, europeans
and germans focusing on business,econ,languages (e.g. Central
European University..) 3. diversity universities (e.g. ecological
univ in bucharest)
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- 4.1.gabor denc college in hungary (computer firm) 4.2. media
university in romania (media pro) 4.3. Romanian banking institute
founded by romanian national bank and romanian association of banks
4.4. skolkovo business school (joint educational program in nano
technology) 5. NGO-supported universities -Kosovo: Mitrovica
(SPARK, 1994)-professional school, supported by three governments
(sweden, denmark, and netherlands) 6. American Universities in
Europe: e.g. franklin university
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- C OMMONALITIES 1. overemphasis on business studies -
neoliberalism 2. americanization of curriculum and introduction of
neo-liberalism 3. common interest increasing 4. financing of study
5. networking: Danube Rectors Conference, University network in the
Adriatic/Ionian Seas
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- 4.1. T ALSINKI Since 1992: Tal 0,4 mio and Hel 0,6 mio becoming
a new metropolitan area Monthly labor mobility from estonia to
finland: 0,4 mio (handicratsmen, nurses, computer experts,) Income
in finland 3 times than estonia 20.000 estonian IC experts working
in finland
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- 5.2. CENTROPE: H EART OF E UROPE -central europe; declaration
of kittsee 2003; covering 7,2 million inhabitants; but 4 languages
and cultures -educational region (ICT)and automitve cluster (kia,
hyundai,peugeot, vw, suzuki, cotroen, bmw producing 2,5 million
units)-future: ICT, car, wood -focus on economy. Infrastructure,
education, culture, tourism -center for intercultural learning
(edTWIN project) -connection with trans siberian railway?
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- GENOUS
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- 6. E XO
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- 7. C N
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- FDI IN 27 COUNTRIES 2003-2010
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- 6. E XOGENOUS D EVELOPMENT 1: FDI IN B ALKAN (S ERBIA )
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- 7. Exogenous Development 2: Access to Knowledge Potentials the
Case of Samsung
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- T ASKS OF R/D C ENTER 1. access to local applied/basic
research: joint research 2. market research 3. cooperation with
local research institutes, universities, and industries 4. access
to public/private financial support, including EU support 5. access
to local highly qualified manpower 6. build up local networks
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- C ONCRETE APPROACH STRATEGIES 1. University Cooperation 2. M/A:
Dresden-Novaled; Israel-Transchip Eindhoven-Liquavista 3. Joint
Research Project 4. Grant for excellent students for further study
in USA, UK and France (Samsung Global Scholarship) 5. Access to
retired local engineers and executives, especially in Japan and
Germany 5. high remunerations; Internal promotion to top position
6. Summer university
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- E DUCATION FOR TAPPING TALENTS Summer University in Poland
Executive MBA Program at Munich Business School Master in
International Management in Barcelona
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- T AXONOMY OF R/D C ENTERS Access to local research institutes
(basic/applied research) USA, Japan, UK and NL Access to local hi
tech potentials and clusters -dresden, eindhoven, middlessex,
skolkovo (moscow), israel, finland (espoo) Access to low-cost
talent -poland, ukraine, bangladesh, vietnam, China, North
Korea
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- S KOLKOVO CLUSTER : A NEW SILICON VALLEY ?
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- S KOLKOVO : S ILIKONNOVAYA D OLIN A IN R USSIA Skolkovo
Institute of Technology (SIT) will become a major generator of
innovation in Skolkovo 5 Technology clusters (energy, bio, IT,
space, nuclear). Collaboration with MIT
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- S AMSUNG -Research center in Moscow and Skolkovo -Samsung
Skolkovo Management School Moscow -Samsung Skolkovo Economic
Research Institute
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- Poland
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- P OLAND : THE SECOND LARGEST IT MARKET IN CEE Major MNCs that
have opened centers recently in Poland include: In June 2013,
Genpact opened a center in Szczecin to expand its services portfo
lio in Europe. The new center will deliver services in domains such
as finance a nd accounting, supply chain management, customer
relationship management and back office services. Google has set up
a R&D facility in Krakow with focus on product research and
development. The center has about 100 employees working on Google
TV and I nfrastructure and analysis for Googles sales department
with major focus on e ngineering rather than research. In September
2012, Facebook opened a center in Warsaw focusing on applicatio n
development. This center will serve Central and Eastern Europe
covering 30 countries. Krakow and Warsaw have become the major
software clusters in the country. T ogether, Krakow and Warsaw have
an installed talent pool of 30,500 IT/ITES p rofessionals and a
fresh talent pool of 17,000 engineers graduating every year.
Locations such as Lodz, Lublin and Gdansk are fast emerging as key
Tier II de stinations for software development. In recent years
various MNCs have expan ded their operations in these locations.
Samsung opened a R&D center in Lodz in early 2013 and has plans
to hire 150 employees in the center. The new center focuses on the
development of advance d digital television software and software
for Samsungs mobile devices.
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- Consortium won prestigious grant EU-KOR EA ICI Consortium won
prestigious grant EU-KOREA I CI "Korean European Global Leadership
Progra m for Sustainable Development" Project Title:KOREU GLP for
Sustainable Develo pmentEU Lead Institution:Sodertorn University EU
Member State:Haaga-Helia University Warsaw School of Social
Sciences and Humanitie s University of FlorenceNon-EU Lead
Institution: Hanyang UniversityNon-EU Partner Country:Ko rea
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- Korean LG, still expanding its TV LCD plant in Mlawa and is
constructing a huge factory in Wroclaw area. According to LG press
release Poland will be the biggest supplier of LCD screens by the
end of 2015.
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- EU-K OREA U NIVERSITIES C ONSORTIUM, 2009 -funding by the
Education, Audio Visual and Culture Executive Agency of EU and
Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology -members:
stettin univ.,cardinal stefan wyszynski univ,nicolaus copernicus
uiv, jagiellona univ, univ of warsaw, gdansk univ of technology,
soederstoen uni, haega helia univ of appplied sciences, hanyang
univ, ajou univ and konkuk univ -summer school 2012 -group of prof.
hartmut yersin
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- ukraine
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- U KRAINE : S PACE I NDUSTRY
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- U KRAINE : S AMSUNG R/D IN K HIV, K HARKIV Ukraine represents
the largest IT Outsourcing in dustry in Eastern Europe IT
Outsourcing industry growth rate for 2009 1 3% More than 900 IT
companies 18,000+ specialists involved in IT Outsourcing Ukraine
has more than 800 universities and colle ges Majority of Ukrainian
IT specialists (est. 70%) wo rk for American or European customers
A number of Government initiatives introduced t o support and
promote the Ukrainian IT industry
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- ELEKS SOFTWARE ELEKS Software is a leading company in the Ukr
ainian IT industry with a diverse customer base and over a decade
of experience, delivering softw are services and solutions for the
US and Europe an markets 470 professionals, including experts in
Microsoft technologies, Java, Web, mobile, embedded devel opment,
and localization
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- 8. C ONCLUSION -Dichotomy centre-periphery, still persisting,
but sub-centres (metropolitanization) emerging -Main factors:
knowledgization (university- industry cooperation), mobility thanks
to EU, recourse to potentials combined with start-ups, market
potential in cee -locational advantages utilizing SOC -Utilizing
low wage level and high skilled labor