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ABSTRACT
The goal of this article is to identify the impact of innovations on growth and stagnation regions in Poland. The research procedure consists of two stages. At stage one, Polish administrative units (voivodeships) were arranged on a scale of economically robust and weak regions following data clustering, indicators organized in line with the following aspects of social and economic growth: (1) population and settlement, (2) the economy structure and the labour market, (3) the technical infrastructure and spatial accessibility and (4) the financial situation and level of affluence. Stage two includes identification of the relation between the regional diversification and the distribution of growth and stagnation regions in Poland which is based on canonical correlation.
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1. Finally, the concept of internalization as we know it from Coase's work is gaining in importance as a return to taking advantage of the market mechanism to streamline developmental processes.
2. GREMI—Groupe de Recherche Europeen sur les Milieux Innovateurs (the European Group of Researchers into Innovative Environments).
3. As for 2009, three groups of indicators were used, describing as: (1) research and development, (2) activities for the benefit of innovations (expenditures on innovations in industrial and service rendering businesses) and (3) results of innovations in industrial and service rendering businesses. As for 2002, it was impossible because of lack of comparable data.
4. The research into innovations in the service sector relied on a representative sample of approximately 6000 companies employing more than 9 people each and whose major business operations fell into sections G, I, J and K.