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Science-Business Collaboration as a Contribution to the Development of Eastern Croatia

Collaboration between scientific and business sector is a theme that is of a great importance both, in Croatia and in the world. However, regardless the importance of the topic, in Croatian professional and scientific literature a deficiency of this type of research is prevailed. With a goal of contribution to the discussion about the potential of science- business interaction for the country's economic development, this paper aims to present the results of conducted empirical research in the field of Croatian scientific and business entities cooperation. This paper examines the intensity, quality and other parameters of the interaction from the perspective of Croatian businessmen. The subject scores on a national level are then compared with the evaluation scores obtained by the examined business entities from eastern Croatia (including five Croatian counties: Brod-Posavina, Osijek- Baranja, Pozega-Slavonia, Virovitica-Podravina and Vukovar-Srijem). In this paper the results of an empirical research are presented. The research is conducted on a sample composed of 120 Croatian companies from all Croatian counties. The highly structured questionnaire is the applied survey instrument and the research was conducted online. Results of the conducted research indicate that there are some differences regarding the intensity of science- business collaboration in eastern Croatia compared to the national average. As the average score of all the collaboration indicators are rather low in general, both at national and regional level, it is necessary to use the potential of the science-business collaboration more significantly to advance the regional economic development of the Republic of Croatia.

science ; business ; collaboration ; regional development ; eastern Croatia

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