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In order to maintain its global competitiveness in the future, the Baltic Sea region (BSR) needs to preserve and improve its technological capability and innovativeness. This article focuses on innovations in the Baltic Sea region, particularly on external innovation drivers and innovation environments in the BSR and individual countries within the region. Firstly, some definitions of innovations, innovation drivers, and characteristics of a favourable innovation environment are presented. Secondly, the current ...

This article focuses on the development of peaceful nuclear power. The author draws attention to the fact that nuclear power ... ... number of states have had tragic experiences of nuclear emergencies. Nevertheless, many countries — including the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — express a strong interest in development... ... is ready to build its own NPP. Thus, the development of nuclear power in the Baltic Sea region requires joint coordinated actions independent of any bloc-inspired interests...

This article considers the possibility of Russian integration into a common research, technological, and innovative space of the Baltic region. The author presents the results of a comparative analysis of innovative development in Russia and the Baltic Sea countries based on the calculation of an integral research and technological potential ...

The article discusses the semi-medium-sized cities (with a population from 20 to 50 thousand people) and their functions in five regions of the North-West Federal District of the Russian Federation; the ... ... semi-medium-sized cities of the region with municipalities of the EU countries in the framework of cross-border and cooperation and ... ... for the region, the position of the Kaliningrad region in the Baltic Sea Region is defined. 1. Давидович В. Г. Величина ...

This article analyses possibilities for minimising energy threats to the economy of the Kaliningrad region — an isolated Russian exclave. The au-thors consider the key aspects of the ... ... energy security problem is to integrate the region in the common energy market of the Baltic Sea region, which would serve the interests of all Baltic Sea states. 1. Dolzer M.... ... обращения: 14.12.2014). 2. Energy Supply Security: The Emergency Response of IEA Countries. P., 2014. 3. First LNG supply to Kaliningrad Region scheduled for late 2017...

The publication reflects the problem of new identity of the Baltics in the conditions of competition between European spaces. The Baltic States are presented as a political structure, where ... ....nl/site/?download=Laura Herta Gongola (дата обращения: 13.03.2013). 3. Paulauskas K. The Baltic States: picking regions, shedding myths, decoding acronyms. URL: http://archive.minfolit.lt/arch/5001/5190.pdf (дата обращения: 23....

Innovative activity is carried out at three levels — those of the state, region and a company or a university. This article considers the ... ... the spatial differentiation of innovative activity within the Baltic region. The analysis is done on the basis of national and ... ... of Entereneurship. 11. Rossija i strany mira [Russia and world countries], 2010. Moscow, Russian Federal Service of State Statistics.... ....5922/2079-8555-2012-3-4 44-54 national innovation system, Baltic Sea region, Triple Helix, R&D

This author uses regionalism as a theoretical framework for analyzing the foreign policy of the Russian Federation towards the Republic of Estonia. Regionalism ... ... of great powers often assume that, for example, small European countries are subject to a treatment different from that of small ... ... the regions which the Russian elite relate Estonia to — the Baltic States, Northern Europe, and Europe as a whole. The results ... ... [Populism and political participation: the riots in the Baltic Sea region in 2007—2009], Politicheskaja ekspertiza: POLITEKS ...

The relevance of the study lies in the acute need to modernise the tools for a more accurate and comparable ... ... apply the method to the analysis of birth and mortality rates in 1995 and 2010 for 140 countries against the global average, and for the Baltic Sea states against the European average. The grouping of countries and the analysis... ... (polarisation) rates. The features of demographic process development in the Baltic regions states are described against the global and European background. The study confirmed...

To study the key instruments of international cooperation between Russia and the European Union ... ... projects aimed at cooperation and tourism development in the border regions of Russia and the EU countries. A number of projects have been implemented under the ... ... 2011, The factors affecting the development of the South-Eastern Baltic tourism and recreation region, Balt. Reg., no. 1, p. 93—100.... ... turizme [Innovation in tourism], Moscow, Akademija. 6. The Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007—2013, available at: http://www.eu.baltic....

... after the Cold War. It was then when the independent Baltic States became a platform for emergence and recognition of the Baltic Sea region. The author focuses on the social and cultural integrity of the region and considers the traditional Nordic countries and the Baltic Sea states as interrelated components of a single region, different from other European regions in terms of economic interests, as well as its natural and sociocultural landscape. 1. Witte, S. Yu. 1960, Vospominanija [Memoirs], Мoscow, Vol. 2, p. 122—123. 2. Karlbek, H. 2002, Russkoe v Shvecii ...

This article discusses the trends of demographic development of the Baltic Sea region's cities. It analyses the factors affecting the urban population dynamics in the second half of the 20th — the beginning ... ....5922/2079-8555-2010-4-1 5-14 demographic problem, population decline, aging nation, migration level, urban areas, urban growth, Nordic countries, Baltic Sea states, Poland

The article continues the analysis of the social and economical development of the Baltic Sea region, conducted by Baltic Center for Advanced Studies and Education (BaltCASE) in frames of the research project «Russia and EU: Past, Present, Future». 1.  Балтийский регион как полюс экономической интеграции ...

This article describes civil protection activities of the EU in the framework of the Community Civil Protection Mechanism — a system for coordinating civil protection resources and in-kind assistance to countries stricken by natural and manmade disasters. By analyzing the legislation and ... ... Instrument, is used as an example of the introduction of preventive measures in the Baltic Sea region. 1. Civil protection — full report, 2009, Special Eurobarometer, no. 328...

Population dynamics is one of the key categories of socio-economic development of territories. Cities, as the main ... ... cities’ coastal position on the dynamics of their population by the example of the Baltic region countries. The dependence of the popultaion dynamics on the coastal location of the... ... attraction for the population (primarily located at a distance of up to 50 km from the sea). 1. Winters J. V. Why are smart cities growing? Who moves and who stays // Jour­nal...

... carried out in Denmark through introducing new data. The research results can be used by politicians, scholars and social activists interested in the relations with Denmark. 1. Klemeshev, A. P. 2011, A comparative assessment of the innovation potential of the Baltic Sea region countries, Baltic Region, no. 2 (8), p. 48—54. doi:10.5922/2079-8555-2011-2-5, available at: http://journals.kantiana.ru/upload/iblock/1ee/Andrei%20P.%20Klemeshev_43-48.pdf (accessed 17 February 2011). 2. Datskoe videnie Rossii, 2009, 24 June, Portal ...

Marine spatial planning has been widely applied in the leading maritime countries. However, it is not so common in Russia, ... ... largely absent. Spatial planning shares a number of features with marine planning, especially when it ... ... regulation. The use of marine space, its parts, and sea (water) is covered by a number of laws of the Russian ... ... proizvoditel'nyh sil (SOPS). 2. Baturova, G. V. 2011, Regional'nye morehozjajstvennye klastery kak osnova ... ... the international and national policy context for Baltic Sea space and MSP, Geesthacht. 19. Zaucha, Ja....

This article provides a comparative analysis of the mechanisms of education policies pursued by the governments of Germany, Sweden, ... ... reforms, the role of education system modernization in the innovative development of the Baltic Sea region, and the mechanisms of technological development through introducing innovations in education and science. The general education policy trend in these countries shows that most of public investment is allocated to universi-ties and newly...

This article presents the Russian contrinution to the international study "Alcohol and drug prevention among youth in Baltic Sea region" (ADPY), implemented in 2012-2013 with the participation of municipalities from four European countries – Sweden, Norway, Lithuania, and Russia (two districts of the Kaliningrad region). The study aimed to collect comparable data on alcohol, drug, and other psychoactive substance abuse in 15-16 year olds. This article analyses the feautures ...

... information source in terms of the economic and political image of a country and, to a great extent, a decisive factor in the global trends relevant to different countries and their development potentials. The author also compares the international images of Russia and the Baltic Sea region countries. 1. Legatum prosperity index, available at: http://www. li. com/ (accessed 17 December 2010). 2. Human Development Report 2010. The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development, available at: http://hdr.undp.org/en (accessed 17 December ...

The article describes changes in the cross-border cooperation support in the framework of the EU Regional Policy. The author emphasises the role of the European Neighbourhood Policy in the development of cross-border cooperation with non-EU countries. The article outlines the main obstacles for the development of euroregions ... ....eu/world/enp/pdf/country/enpi_cross-border_cooperation_stra­tegy_pa­per_en.pdf (да­та об­ращения: 17.07.2009).   9.  Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007—2013. Programme under European Ter­ritorial Co-operation...