National Projects
| Project title and ID number | “Explore the Competitiveness of Latvian Enterprises in Foreign Markets and Make Proposals for its Strengthening” National Research Program 5.2. EKOSOC-LV, project 5.2.1., LR IZM registration Nr. 02.2-09/13 |
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| Type of the project | National Research Program |
| Type of the project | National |
| Leading department at RTU | RTU FEEM Department of International Business, Transport Economic and Logistics |
| Project partners | University of Latvia, Riga Stradiņš University |
| Project manager at RTU | Professor, Leading Researcher R. Počs |
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Leading researchers, researchers and other |
Professor, Leading Researcher R. Počs, Professor, Leading Researcher Inga Lapiņa, Associated Professor, Leading Researcher V. Skribans, Assistant Professor, Researcher A. Auziņa-Emsiņa, Assistant Professor, Researcher V. Ozoliņa, Assistant Professor, Researcher P. Patļins, PhD Student J. Hudenko, PhD student M. Balodis |
| Summary of the project: goals, objectives, activities, results | The aim of the project is to elaborate the theoretical justification and practical solutions to strengthen and enhance the competitiveness of the Latvian enterprises in the foreign markets. Project implies evaluation of the current level of competitiveness of the Latvian enterprises, identification and evaluation of development problems, resources, factors, which influence competitiveness. It is planned to explore the development and export possibilities of the Latvian enterprises/industries (including production and service industries – healthcare, education, transit etc.), evaluate macro- and micro-economic conditions of competitiveness. Research results will give the opportunity to find out and justify the most important transformation directions for Latvian economy to strengthen and enhance the competitiveness of the Latvian enterprises and priority industries in the foreign markets. Scientifically justified methods and models will be elaborated for evaluation and forecasting of the development of the competitiveness of the Latvian economy, separate its industries and enterprises in the foreign market. |
| Project period | 2014 – 2017 |
| Project budget, EUR | 200 000 EUR |
| Project title and ID number | Project 5.2.2 The Development of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Latvia in Compliance with the Smart Specialisation Strategy EKOSOC_LV National Research Program |
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| Type of the project | National |
| Leading department at RTU | RTU FEEM Department of Corporate Finance and Economics |
| Project partners | Ventspils University College, Institute of Social, Economic and Humanitarian Research of Vidzemes augstskola, University of Agriculture of Latvia, SSE Riga, Business and Finance Research Centre of the School of Business and Finance, Institute of Economy of the Latvian Academy of Science, Business company SIA „Sinerģija” |
| Project manager at RTU | RTU professor Nataļja Lāce |
| Summary of the project: goals, objectives, activities, results | Studying and developing of methods, models and solutions that would ensure development of a cooperation system among the public sector, research, education system and business and would encourage development of innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as contribute to restructuring of the national economy of Latvia within the context of the smart specialization strategy. |
| Project period | 01.06.2014 – 31.12.2017 |
| Project budget, EUR | 108 748.00 EUR |
| Project title and ID number | Project 5.2.7 “Involvement of the society in social innovation for providing sustainable development of Latvia” of National Research Programme “Economic Transformation, Smart Growth, Governance and Legal Framework for the State and Society for Sustainable Development – a New Approach to the Creation of a Sustainable Learning Community EKOSOC-LV” |
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| Type of the project | National Research Program |
| Type of the project | National |
| Leading department at RTU | RTU FEEM Department of Corporate Finance and Economics |
| Project partners | Latvia University of Agriculture (LUA), University of Latvia (UL), Riga Stradiņš University (RSU), Business Company SIA “Finehouse |
| Project manager at RTU | RTU assoc. professor Karine Oganisjana |
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Leading researchers, researchers and other |
Researchers: RTU docent Konstantins Kozlovskis, docent Tālis Laizāns, Science assistant Nicolas Monge, Science assistant Iveta Ozoliņa-Ozola |
| Summary of the project: goals, objectives, activities, results | Elaboration of a model of social innovation for: promoting economic democracy; developing social and human capital; improving collaboration among state institutions, enterprises and the Latvian population in order to solve social problems and motivate to get self-organised and actively participate in social innovation processes strengthening society’s securitability and ensuring its sustainable development. Project objectives – to explore the present forms of social innovation and the performance indicators of social innovation processes in Latvia and Europe in order to create an appropriate platform for the elaboration of a contemporary model of social innovation in Latvia; – to investigate the interaction of economic democracy, human capital and social capital and their impact on topical issues of society concerning education, social involvement, processes of innovation, and development of public institutions in Latvia; – to research the factors which affect the involvement of the society in social innovation processes in Latvia and determine the prerequisites for ensuring social innovation both at individual and group level; – to elaborate a network model of collaboration of state institutions, enterprises and inhabitants for developing social innovation in Latvia; – to work out recommendations to state policy makers and company owners for providing the understanding of the issues connected with employee financial participation systems, social capital and social involvement for developing social innovation in Latvia; – to elaborate recommendations for the introduction of employee financial participation system at the methodology and method level, as well as to develop the theoretical concept of human capital and social capital interaction and conduct its approbation in Latvia; – to elaborate teaching and learning methodology and materials aimed at the development of social innovation, openness to novelty, interdisciplinary creative thinking and active involvement in the solution of social problems in Latvia. |
| Project period | 2014 – 2017 |
| Project budget, EUR | 106 960.00 EUR |
| Project title and ID number | Development of the Econometric Short- and Medium-Term Forecasting Model of the Corporate Income Tax |
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| Type of the project | Project of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Latvia |
| Type of the project | National |
| Leading department at RTU | RTU FEEM Department of International Business, Transport Economic and Logistics |
| Project manager at RTU | RTU professor Nataļja Lāce |
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Leading researchers, researchers and other |
Assistant Professor, Researcher Velga Ozoliņa Assistant Professor, researcher Velga Ozoliņa; Professor, leading researcher Remigijs Počs |
| Summary of the project: goals, objectives, activities, results | The aim of the Project is to develop econometric forecasting model, which allows predicting the revenues of the corporate income tax in current and three subsequent years. The project implies the development of database of the model, calculation of model coefficients and evaluation of the influencing factors. Corporate income tax revenue forecasts are calculated with various confidence intervals. Project results include also the theoretical justification of the model, the model description and the instruction on the use of the model. |
| Project period | 2014 -2015 |
| Project budget, EUR | 4 000.00 EUR |
| Project title and ID number | Enhancing Latvian Citizen`s Securitability through Development of the Financial Literacy Nr. 394/2012 |
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| Type of the project | The Latvian Council of Science fundamental and applied research project |
| Type of the project | National |
| Leading department at RTU | RTU FEEM Department of Corporate Finance and Economics |
| Project manager at RTU | RTU professor Nataļja Lāce |
| Project period | 01.02.2013.-31.12.2015 |