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Identification and analysis of innovation enablers and inhibitors in Croatia and the Adriatic Region

The main objective of this paper is to identify, classify and analyze the innovation chain of enablers and inhibitors in Croatia in the context of the Adriatic Region, in view of their critical role in the generation and growth of high-tech innovative enterprises. To this end, we present a series of indicators across ten innovation dimensions that constitute an important and integral part of a national innovation system, and which were previously compiled by the PACINNO project consortium. These dimensions include human resources, education system, public and private sector, funding, linkages, entrepreneurship and SME, scientific output, economic data and, finally, institutions. Another important objective of the study is the evaluation of the Croatian national innovation system and innovation policies. This refers to the assessment of the structure and level of coordination of policy making institutions, policy execution institutions and intermediary institutions as main actors in the innovation system. Here we rely on the qualitative data obtained through interviews with key informants, which enables us to identify the role of different actors, programmes, measures and instruments in the national innovation system as innovation enablers or inhibitors. This research contributes to the literature on national and regional innovation systems by providing the first comprehensive set of data for the Adriatic Region, which has so far been given limited attention despite its strategic importance in various EU policy documents. Moreover, we propose a novel analytical framework for the study of national and regional innovation systems through the lens of enablers and inhibitors across innovation system dimensions.

innovation system ; enabler ; inhibitor ; Croatia ; Adriatic region ; innovation policies ; evaluation

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