Basic aspects of legal factor within the national innovation system in Latvia
2011
Mezeniece, M., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia). Faculty of Economics | Rivza, B., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia). Faculty of Economics
The direct public R and D funding cannot be delivered or increased in sufficient amount due to the recent crisis and huge cuts of the state budget. Therefore, the authors consider that indirect measures such as interference in the legal and regulatory framework, and definition of public procurement rules in favour of innovative and R and D promoting products and services could be used to enhance R and D performance in Latvia. This paper aims to investigate the role of legal factor played in the national innovation system. The authors have set several tasks in order to reach the aim: (1) to revise and analyse the existing research and theoretical findings on significance of legal factor within the national innovation system; and to organise a questionnaire to find out the level of significance of basic factors within the legal framework that determines the development of the scientific activity and R and D in Latvia; (2) to evaluate and analyse the results of the survey; (3) to propose recommendations to policy makers for elaboration of more user friendly, effective, and efficient policy measures that do not demand immediate financial investments from the conversely direct spending of government. The basic aspects of legal factor in the questionnaire are evaluated mainly as negatively influencing, except of tax allowance or subsidies for producers of innovative products. However, the authors still observe high rate of answers that indicates low influence of certain aspects to the development of R and D in Latvia. This could be explained by the fact that other R and D development determinants like financing, productivity and efficiency, project implementation skills, and commercialisation of inventions have more significant influence in Latvia.
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