Browsing by Author "Sandu, Steliana"

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    Atingerea obiectivului Europa 2020 în domeniul CDI – o provocare majoră pentru România în condițiile actuale
    (IEFS, 2012) Sandu, Steliana
    Increasingly more, national and international experts are convergently pointing to research and innovation as the appropriate answer for overcoming the current crisis. The underfinanced scientific research, due to the economic crisis, could negatively bear on the Romanian economy and society, leading to a deepened crisis as well as to a narrowed range of solutions for sustainable development for Romania. Any crisis management strategy is doomed to failure if the RDI potential contribution to relaunching economic growth is not to taken into consideration. In this context, raising the investment in research up to 2% of GDP until 2020 is, to Romania, a foremost objectiv of the Europe 2020 Agenda and a distinctive challenge. This paper aims to explore the current state of the RDI system and its financing strenghts and weakensses in order to provide coordinates for rethinking the prioritisation of funds allocation and for identifying the most effective solutions for RDI expenditure management. Another objective is to underline the alternatives for raising the absorptive capacity for the European funds allotted to RDI and for intensifying the knowledge transfer between research institutes and industry.
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    Specializarea în CDI – aspect al creșterii economice inteligente în Romania
    (IEFS, 2011) Sandu, Steliana; Anghel, Irina
    Highlighted as a strategic instrument towards the targets of the Lisbon 2010 and Europe 2020 strategies, RDI specialisation has been a very frequent issue in the recent literature of the field. Many of the official European documents have also emphasized that a more functional, integrated and strong European Research Area requires worldclass European research centers, that would attract best resources for high quality research, through the mechanism of „smart specialisation”. Various and valid arguments have been made in favor of RDI specialisation. At the same time, many authors have warned on the potential pitfalls and weaknesses associated to specialisation, that would negatively bear on the flexibility of the European RDI system, on its adaptability and proper crisis response, on the functionality of the resource distribution mechanisms and on its attractiveness for international financial resources for R&D. Building on the literature review, the most recent hypothesis and statistical indicators, the present paper looks into the RDI specialisation in Romania, its intensity and depth, its structure and characteristics that should be taken into consideration for future policies and strategies.