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Fedirko, O. A. (2015). Formuvannya novoyi lokal'no-innovatsiynoyi paradyhmy rehional'nykh doslidzhen' [Forming of new local-innovative paradigm of regional research]. Rehional'na ekonomika - Regional Economy, 77(3). [in Ukrainian].
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The article reveals evolution of systemic paradigms. Their structural composition (type of action, principle of action, action motives, arena of action, defining principle, types of theoretical concepts employed, aims of the analysis) has been compared employing R. Swedberg’s approach. Author’s evolutionary model of systemic paradigms development is built on polemics with T. Kun’s incommensurability thesis: although it might be true for engineering sciences, it is not the same case for the social and economic sciences, whose methodological apparatus usually absorbs the elements of the previous paradigms, rejecting some of their local concepts and principles. The full conceptual incommensurability, however, is hardly achievable, as most of the social and economic phenomena are of evolutionary nature. When research objects receive new systemic qualities economists develop new relevant categories to capture them, but some notions can always be easily translated and explained in the terms of preceding paradigms. The methodological essence, key tenets and categories of the new local innovation paradigm of socio-economic development have been considered. Author argues that the core of the proposed methodological paradigm is made up by the theory of innovation systems, the new regionalism, theory of network society, as well as the concept of the “third industrial revolution”. Key research subjects within the paradigm include analyzing the components of the local environment and functions of institutions, which determine the efficiency of innovation activities. Author explains interrelations between the notions of local innovation system, innovative milieu, institutional thickness, untraded interdependencies, global and local collaborative networks, energy internet, lateral power, distributed capitalism etc. meaning to elaborate a holistic approach for the perception of modern trends of innovation localization. Author proves that the new paradigm, which is focused on the localization of the economic activities in selective areas of global space, provides a systematic understanding of modern trends, shaping the knowledge based economy.

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local-innovation paradigm, localization, locality, network society