Scientific Institute "Technology Transfer and Innovation Centre"

Research

Centre Operations:

The Centre aims to attract resources for VUAS research and project result commercialization, and for conducting research.


The main tasks of the Centre are, within its competence, to foster the development of science in the fields of technology transfer and innovation at VUAS by increasing the intellectual potential of Ventspils and Latvia, including:

• Development of new technologies to create innovative products and services, thus facilitating resource efficiency, technological transformation, and integration of businesses in value-chains at different levels;

• Development of digital skills to create and commercialize innovations;

• Finding innovative solutions to topical societal challenges to improve and strengthen public health, reduce inequality, provide access to quality food, clean and efficient energy, inclusive public services, and create a safe and quality living environment.

• Within the competence of the Centre, carrying out high-quality scientific activities, for example, expanding R&D capacity to increase business productivity and improve the efficiency of public administration processes to encourage balanced development of Latvian regions, as well as publishing results of the activities in internationally acclaimed academic journals and presenting them at international conferences.


Additionally, the Centre aims to actively participate in the state, regional and city economic policy-making, to serve as a resource base for the scientific work of young scientists, including doctoral and postdoctoral students, to improve the quality of their work and promote their integration into the international science arena, to participate in the development and implementation of projects, including cooperation with other branches of VUAS, as well as to organize conferences, seminars and other educational events, including cooperation with entrepreneurs.

Discussion papers

The results of the Centre’s researchers and the staff of Ventspils University of Applied Sciences have been published in the discussion reports of the Scientific Institute of Ventspils University of Applied Sciences “Centre for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development”. The discussion reports focus on a wide variety of topics related to fundamental and applied research on entrepreneurship, innovations, and regional development. The reports published in these discussions are not copyrighted and are free to publish in other publications.

Publications

1) International Conference "Entrepreneurship and innovation as key drivers of regional development": Book of proceedings, VUC, 2014.

2) Virtanen, Markku and Heimonen, Tomi (2013), Longitudinal analysis of the development of high growth and success (HGS) firms - Are HGS businesses high impact firms? Paper to be presented in the XXVII RENT Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania, November 20-22, 2013.

3) Pobol, A. Export-oriented IT companies developing their resource base and institutional environment / Special Issue: Internationalisation of SMEs: Learning and Managing Change Processes / L. Dyaram and T. J. Kamalanabhan, (Eds.) // The International Journal of Learning and Change.

4) Atherton A, Smallbone D, 2013, "Promoting private sector development in China: the challenge of building institutional capacity at the local level" Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 31(1) 5 – 23.

5) David Smallbone, Friederike Welter, and Jovo Ateljevic Entrepreneurship in emerging market economies: Contemporary issues and perspectives ,International Small Business Journal March 2014 32: 113-116, first published on December 30, 2013 doi:10.1177/0266242613511479.

6) Sauka, A. un B. Rivža (Red.) (2014) Latvijas ekonomikas un uzņēmējdarbības izaicinājumi. Ventspils, Uzņemējdarbības, inovāciju un reģionālās attīstības centrs, Ventspils Augstskola. ISBN: 978-9984-648-34-7.

7) Jaunzems A. and K. Kreslins. Quality Assurance in Business Education: Role of Interactive Teaching-Learning Process and Effective Examination System. Entrepreneurship and Innovation as Key Drivers of Regional Development: EIRD II Conference Proceedings, 2014, pp. 30-37;

8) Sergejs Hilkevics and Dace Štefenberga. The Development of Innovative Business in Regions of Latvia in Context of Global Economy. In: Gregory T. Papanikos (ed.). Essays on Growth, Development and Finance, 2014, pp. 229-238.

9) Kaliyeva G., Sagintayeva S., Revalde G. and S. Baizakov. The principle of reversibility as the basis of antirecessionary technology management of economy. Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference "Economic Science for Rural Development", 2014.

10) Slonimski, A. Enterprising Families in a Cross-Border Context: the Example of Belarus / F. Welter, D. Smallbone, A. Slonimski, O. Linchevskaya, A. Pobol and M. Slonimska // Internationalisation of Firms from Economies in Transition: The Effects of a Politico-Economic Paradigm Shift / Eds.: Mai Thi Thanh Thai and Ekaterina Turkina. – Edward Elgar.– 2014. – P.276-302.

11) Поболь А.И. Развитие институциональной среды для стимулирования прямых иностранных инвестиций в исследования и разработки / А.И. Поболь // Экономический бюллетень / Научно-исследовательский экономический институт Министерства экономики Респ. Беларусь. – 2014. – № 6 (171). – с. 14-24.