Benchmarking of Local Production Systems in Eastern Europe and Ukraine

Abstract

The economic crisis and consequent numerous social, economic and political problems had increased regional disparities in all countries, without exception, and require for the search of possible ways of their neutralizing. The main task of modern public policy should be launching of innovative development of the national economy. In this regard, creation of innovative local productive systems could be considered as the suitable instrument in terms of selecting the proper strategy for socio-economic development and balanced government support, that will successfully adapt the stakeholders to the new market conditions. Thus, the main purpose of current paper is to conduct the comparative analysis of local productive systems’ preconditions and activities in the countries of Eastern Europe. In the theoretical paragraph, the concept and structure of LPS will be considered and their role for innovative advancing is discussed. The paper will illustrate the preconditions for LPS development according to the 3-star approach of European Cluster Observatory. The peculiarities of national LPS-supporting policies will be compared also for Eastern European countries. Besides the LPS initiatives in the selected countries (Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine) will be investigated more detailly.