Innowacyjność i kapitał ludzki w rozwoju regionu
Innovation and human capital in the regional development

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the issues of innovation and human capital as endogenous factors ofregional development. It shows the importance of regional innovation and human capital for improvementof regional competitiveness and increasing development opportunities in an intensifyingrivalry between contemporary socio-territorial systems, the regions in particular.The first part of the article has a briefly definitional approach of regional development, payingattention to the many aspects of this process and the importance of internal quality factors and developmentresources.In the second part of the study innovation of regions was defined as the ability to implementreforms, changes and improvements in the sphere of socio-economic development aimed at improvingthe effectiveness of mechanisms to support regional development. Pro-development impact ofinnovation in the territorial dimension was shown in the course of the analysis of the structure andfunctioning of regional innovation networks, environment and regional innovation strategies.In the third part of the article human capital was characterized as an important factor for developmentof the region. The significance of this endogenous development resource is shown in thecontext of the theory of regional innovation systems, the concept of learning region and the conceptof the creative class.Included in the article analysis and characterization of pro-development impact of innovationand human capital in the regional level, show the importance of social and cultural phenomena asa soft, non-economic factors of economic growth and development.

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