THE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION FOR CONSOLIDATION OF THE COMPETITIVENESS AND FOR THE ECONOMICAL GROWTH – THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITY IN REGIONAL I
THE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION FOR CONSOLIDATION OF THE COMPETITIVENESS AND FOR THE ECONOMICAL GROWTH – THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITY IN REGIONAL I

Summary/Abstract: The European Union gives a main role to the research, development and innovation domain (RDI) for consolidation of the competitiveness and for the economical growth; this domain will be called synthetically Research and Development (R&D).Changes occurred in technology and society demands introduce changes in traditional higher education, quality being seen as a knowledge generation in academia nowadays. The advent of a knowledge-based society requires improved means of communicating and using knowledge and opportunities for lifelong learning. These developments will be within a socio-economic and demographic context which itself is being called into question. The social sciences, by their nature, enable us to include the way in which the societies are organised and governed and how they evolve and change. They also provide us the opportunity of identifying the factors which contribute to the social, economic, political and cultural change. Social research can supply solutions, for example, to the questions concerning the changing living conditions, current economic trends and migratory flows, changes in work, and in the roles of men and women, population trends, the need to have new forms of governance, etc. It therefore plays a fundamental role in the formulation and implementation of policies at all levels, including the European level.

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