A magyar települések innovációs potenciáljának dimenziói
Dimensions of the innovation potential of Hungarian settlements

Summary/Abstract: A tipical issue today is the conditions underwhich regional economic development programmes can achieve their objectives and benefit the local economy by increasing there silience of each region to crisis. In order to answer this question, it is necessary to know the absorptive capacity of the local economy, which can be strong when the innovation potential of a region is high. This is when the socio-economic network of a given settlement or region is able to generate knowledge, innovation and added value from the resources available. The research aims to make innovation potential spatially indexable. By defining innovation, the study establishes the underlying conceptual framework for the analysis, defines its spatial meaning and its conceptual, verbal ITS (innovation,space, stakeholder model) model,and then uses it to measure the phenomenon.The dimensions of the model framework will be mapped to empirically analysable variables, the range of which willbe refined through factor analysis. In their research, the authors distinguish seven dimensions of innovation potential, including accessibility, labour market, social, knowledge creation, networking, enterprise and industry potential. The study validates the theoretical model by showing that the dimensions of the empirically emerging model framework cover the theoretical model's thematic areas of innovation barriers, can be considered as interdependent and reflect the innovation theory schools of the past decades of innovation geography as well as their main concepts.

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