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Global challenges of corporate employment policy and innovative local responses in Kecskemét

Szemereyné Pataki, Klaudia and Karcsics, Éva and Somosi, Ágnes (2019) Global challenges of corporate employment policy and innovative local responses in Kecskemét. GRADUS, 7 (1). pp. 129-135. ISSN 2064-8014

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Abstract

One of our aims in this article is to show what employment policy challenges — persistent unemployment, inactivity, digitalisation, automation (Siskáné Szilasi B.-Halász L., 2017) — influence the development of the town and its region in Kecskemét County and what kind of innovative responses the town gives by developing different forms of co-operation among various economic actors (the town, businesses and the University) (Etzkowitz- Leydesdorff, 2000; Pertuzé, 2010; Molnar, 2014; Rechnitzer - Kecskés -Reisinger, 2016). The regional embeddedness of higher education institutions contributes to the success of partnerships (Berkeens, 2004), where the contribution made by education, research and the community to higher education and the processes embedded in the regions skills, innovativeness and community culture create added value (Goddard — Chatterton, 1999). We show how the regional embeddedness (Gál, 2016; Lőrincz, 2016) of John von Neumann University as a fourth-generation higher education institution (Lukovics — Zuti, 2014), contributes to the development of the local economy (European Union, 2014; Horváth, 2013). We discuss the latest results of the dual training model (Palkovics, 2016) and present our latest innovation, the profession-specific competence assessment model (Tuning project, 2007; Schomburg, 2007; Teichler, 2007), which we were the first to develop in Hungary (similarly to the dual training model developed by Neumann János University). Over the years, we have relied on the work of several expert working groups (company executives, municipal leaders, university teachers and experts) and on in-depth interviews with experts conducting secondary research. The methodology of our latest competence- based management model is based on primary research (Karcsics, 2012). Our results are summarised in the enhanced Triple-Helix model (Carayannis-Campbell, 2012), the elements of which can be adapted to different regional characteristics and can be successfully used to increase economic and regional competitiveness.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: higher education, innovation, quadruple-helix model
Subjects: H Social Sciences / társadalomtudományok > HM Sociology / társadalomkutatás
Depositing User: Zoltán Subecz
Date Deposited: 08 Jun 2020 14:09
Last Modified: 28 Apr 2021 15:45
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/109362

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