<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Innovations, innovation potential and innovation transfer are very actual topics in many fields of people’s activities. This problematic intersects very broad spectrum of disciplines, from regional development crossing economy to much specified business management and engineering. In the geographical studies this theme appears most often in the connection to social economic situation, internal or external potential and regional development on different hierarchical levels. This paper summarizes the results of research (questionnaires and interviews), which was carried out in the same time on both sides of the border (in the Usti region and in the Central Saxony<sup>1</sup>). It was held under the cross border project “Innovation potential as a factor of increasing of the competitiveness of the Czech-Saxon borderland” (INPOK). Target respondents were on both sides the same: subjects from practices (companies), research and development institutions (high schools, universities, research institutes), then the public administration (above all the municipalities) and the regional actors (for example the economic chambers). We have focuses on analyzing the general framework conditions of the Czech-Saxon borderland, its strengths and weaknesses in the connection with active cross border cooperation above all between the research and practice field with the stress on the innovation behaviour in the study area.</p></abstract>

Innovations, innovation potential and innovation transfer are very actual topics in many fields of people’s activities. This problematic intersects very broad spectrum of disciplines, from regional development crossing economy to much specified business management and engineering. In the geographical studies this theme appears most often in the connection to social economic situation, internal or external potential and regional development on different hierarchical levels. This paper summarizes the results of research (questionnaires and interviews), which was carried out in the same time on both sides of the border (in the Usti region and in the Central Saxony1). It was held under the cross border project “Innovation potential as a factor of increasing of the competitiveness of the Czech-Saxon borderland” (INPOK). Target respondents were on both sides the same: subjects from practices (companies), research and development institutions (high schools, universities, research institutes), then the public administration (above all the municipalities) and the regional actors (for example the economic chambers). We have focuses on analyzing the general framework conditions of the Czech-Saxon borderland, its strengths and weaknesses in the connection with active cross border cooperation above all between the research and practice field with the stress on the innovation behaviour in the study area.

Research and Practice: Partners and/or Competitors?

Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, České mládeže 8, 400 96 Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic

Institute of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic

CIMTT-Fakultät Maschinenwesen, Technische Universität Dresden, Helmholtzstraße 10, 01069 Dresden, Germany

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General findings and regional specifics in the cooperation of research and practice sphere on the example of Czech-Saxon borderland

Innovations, innovation potential and innovation transfer are very actual topics in many fields of people’s activities. This problematic intersects very broad...

Research and Practice: Partners and/or Competitors?

Published Online: Jan 13, 2016

Page range: 33 - 46

Received: Nov 02, 2015

Accepted: Dec 14, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2015-0004

Keywords
Czech-Saxon borderland, innovation, innovation potential, cross border cooperation, business, research

© 2015 Eva Berrová et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Research and Practice: Partners and/or Competitors?

Published Online: Jan 13, 2016

Page range: 33 - 46

Received: Nov 02, 2015

Accepted: Dec 14, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2015-0004

KeywordsCzech-Saxon borderland, innovation, innovation potential, cross border cooperation, business, research

© 2015 Eva Berrová et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Czech-Saxon borderland, innovation, innovation potential, cross border cooperation, business, research