Aleksandra Nowakowska – Foreword 7

PART I. Methodology and operationalization of LPS theory
Stanka Tonkova, Mariana Kuzmanova – Indicators for LPS effective functioning measurement 13
Ivaylo Ivanov – One of possible methodological set of scientific research approaches to LPS 25
Georgi Shinkov Zabunov, Nadya Viktororva Gilina – Institutional conditions for the functioning of clusters in Bulgaria 39
Olga Burmatova – Environmental and economic diagnostics of the local production systems 59

PART II. Policy and regional conditions of LPS’ functioning
Marta Ulbrych – Reindustrialization as a mean of improvement of competitiveness of the European Union 85
Yevhen Savelyev, Vitalina Kurylyak, Yevheniy Kurylyak – Benchmarking of cluster-type local production systems in the world economy and Ukraine 103
Edward Stawasz – Transfer of Knowledge and Technology in the Region of Łódź 135
Vladia Borissova – Intellectual property role for the local production systems efficient functioning in times of crisis 153
Mariia Lyzun – Technology parks as an element of local production systems’ formation 169

• Title: Functioning of the Local Production Systems in Bulgaria, Poland and Russia. Theoretical and Economic Policy Issues
• Author: Aleksandra Nowakowska
• ISBN: 978-83-796-9489-1, 9788379694891
• Date of issue: 2016-01-12
• Format: Ebook
• Item ID: e_0e9p
• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego