‘Knowledge Workers’ in the Baltic Sea Region: Comparative Assessment of Innovative Performance of the Countries in the Macro-Region

Baltic Journal of European Studies Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI:10.1515/bjes-2018-0010

A. Kirch

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Abstract The article studies the problems of human resources stemming from increased mobility, and the emergence of new aspects of migration processes. A comparative analysis of the connection between academic development in the context of university (and the science system) and the process of labour migration taking place in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia was carried out. The article examines the limits of the model through European territorial migration process and concludes that the huge migration of high-skilled labour (called the “knowledge workers”) has had a very negative impact on the innovative and academic potential of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and a negative impact in Estonia. In the final section, the article examines increase in the requirements for competence in the Baltic Sea macroregion of the European Union and Estonia’s university reform of 2013-2016 as an illustrative experiment to (un)resolved problems. The first results of the reform in higher education indicated that it was ineffective-for students, the good ideas of the reform proved to be a lost experiment and the mobility of knowledge workers, as the future academic resource in homeland, turned from Estonia to larger Europe, especially to Finland and the UK.

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波罗的海地区的“知识工人”：宏观区域各国创新绩效的比较评估

文章研究了流动性增加带来的人力资源问题，以及移民过程中新方面的出现。对大学（和科学系统）背景下的学术发展与波兰、拉脱维亚、立陶宛和爱沙尼亚的劳动力迁移过程之间的联系进行了比较分析。文章通过欧洲领土移民过程考察了该模式的局限性，并得出结论，高技能劳动力（称为“知识工人”）的大规模移民对波兰、立陶宛、拉脱维亚的创新和学术潜力产生了非常负面的影响，对爱沙尼亚也产生了负面影响。在最后一节中，文章考察了欧盟波罗的海大区对能力要求的提高以及爱沙尼亚2013-2016年的大学改革，作为解决问题的例证实验。高等教育改革的最初结果表明，它对学生无效，改革的好想法被证明是一个失败的实验，知识工作者作为祖国未来的学术资源，从爱沙尼亚转向了更大的欧洲，尤其是芬兰和英国。

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