Blog

Blogs represent perspectives, overviews, and opinions that employees and columnists from the Institute for Development and Innovation express on relevant economic and social issues. Blogs do not represent the official research and advocacy positions of the Institute for Development and Innovation.

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURЕ

Spring Sowing is Coming, How Much Healthy Soil do we Have Left?
Without healthy soil, we cannot build sustainable and resilient agricultural systems, nor ensure the long-term stability of food production.
  • 7 minutes read

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Investing in Buildings or in People? Why Human Capital Should be the Foundation of Regional Development
A Startup Village implies providing the basic conditions for work, with human capital at the core of the concept.
  • 4 minutes read

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The Long and Unsuccessful Journey to Europe – Two Centuries Later
Serbia still lags so far behind in some areas that it may need another century to catch up – making it three centuries since Sretenje in 1835, and still nothing!
  • 5 minutes read

SOCIAL ECOLOGY

From Conflict to Coexistence: Protecting Bears by Empowering Local Communities
Human-bear coexistence is a dynamic but sustainable state in which humans and bears co-adapt to living together in shared spaces.
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Industrial Policy Strategy – The Serbian Economy of the Yura Era
Let us not be carried away by grand strategies, but acknowledge that knowledge of industrial policy in Serbia is insufficient, as it has been systematically suppressed.
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MEDIA

The Debate Between Walter Lippmann and John Dewey
The debate between Walter Lippmann and John Dewey produced the most useful understanding of the relationship between journalism and democracy, as well as a paradigm for solving important social issues through discussion.
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MEDIA

On the problem of objective journalism
Liberal democracy and capitalism have an inherent contradiction, because due to the need to maximize profit and achieve unlimited growth, the media tend to cheap journalism that undermines democracy.
  • 7 minutes read

WOMEN'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Do national support programmes truly open doors for young women entrepreneurs?
The best period for entering entrepreneurship is at the same time the period of greatest systemic instability for young women.
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

How is it possible to achieve a standard of living in the EU? Through membership and the “waiting room”
To converge with the EU’s standard of living, the country needs greater financial transfers and higher exports to the EU.
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REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

Recognition of regenerative agriculture and financial incentives
The goal is for food to be healthier and more accessible, not just a way for a small group of “eco-conscious” people to soothe their conscience with their wallets.
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BIOECONOMY

Bioeconomy: From Technological Revolution to Societal Transformation
The bioeconomy represents the optimal use of renewable biological resources and renewable raw materials from agriculture, forestry or other sources.
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WOMEN'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Thoughts of a Female Entrepreneur – What will we have for lunch today? 
A female entrepreneur manages both her household and business, balancing private and professional responsibilities with strong organization.
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REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

Regenerative Agriculture: Trend or Necessity?
Regenerative agriculture offers a pathway to address climate change by restoring soil health and biodiversity while bringing substantial improvements in agricultural practices and economic gains for farmers.
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EU MISSION

The mission, seas & waters: can we protect and restore our rivers and wetlands by 2030? 
A large part of rivers and lakes is affected by various forms of pollution that disrupt the natural flow and the continuity of ecosystems.
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DEPOPULATION

A view at the Western Balkans from 2089 – the labour market is never wrong
The study warned of a clear division of the Western Balkans that would not be shaped by internationally recognized borders, with which no nation is satisfied.
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CITIZEN SCIENCE

Science in the public interest, or for your own pocket? 
Open science has never been as relevant and crucial as it is now, especially in a time when we face complex challenges such as climate change, environmental degradation, and the need for sustainable development.
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ERA PRIORITIES

Era Priorities – Past, Present and Future 
The European Research Area (ERA) is a strategic European Union initiative aimed at creating a more supportive and integrated environment for research, collaboration, and innovation across Europe.
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BOOK REVIEW

Mariana Mazzucato and Serbs – We Don’t Have the Shoes for That
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
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ECONOMY

Different Understandings of Capital: What is Capital?
Capital is defined as the total sum of physical (equipment, buildings, machines) and financial (cash, securities) factors that are actively used and strategically invested in the entire production process for economic growth.
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Is there development without domestic investment? Can the Serbian economy have the Ramonda characteristics?
The issue of insufficient domestic investment as a reason for the failure of the current economic model is being discussed increasingly often.
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CITIZEN SCIENCE

Ignorance is power
The role of science is to generate knowledge, but as we open up new fields of understanding, we simultaneously uncover an entire universe of ignorance. This is what we call recognized ignorance, and there is also deep ignorance (what we do not know that we do not know).
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NEW LEGAL FORMS

Are New Legal Forms Needed for Business Entities in Serbia? Can They Be Abused Too?
Are new legal forms needed to effectively improve the business environment and economic growth?
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CLIMATE CHANGE

Green technocentrism and techno-optimism
Although the advancement of technology is a desirable, necessary, and inevitable element of social development, it is neither sufficient, nor at the core of environmental problems, nor is there currently any adequate solution.
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MIGRATION

A City the Size of Bor Yearly Emigrates From Serbia
The research question indirectly raised by the analysis of the costs of emigration concerns the number of emigrants from Serbia. Representatives of the SORS estimated that around 25,000 people emigrate each year.
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ECOLOGY

What do Real Men Drive?
What was formerly regarded as desirable conduct and a consequence of one’s social standing, following technological advancement, becomes integrated into everyday life and persists within the realm of social identity, which is seldom subjected to critical scrutiny.
  • 7 minutes read

ECOLOGY

What does Nature Mean?
Our love for “nature” originates from our evolutionary history, through which we have developed an affinity for the characteristics of certain environments. Biophilia does not simply imply enjoyment of “nature,” but also a sense of belonging.
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ECOLOGY

When it Comes to Ecology, do we get What we Pay For?
Sustainable and unsustainable choices do not exclude one another; rather, they gradually accumulate, as every act of consumption inevitably adds a certain value to our overall ecological footprint.
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ECOLOGY

Environmentally Aware – Environmentally Active?
The majority of individuals will not take any action regarding environmental problems merely by acquiring relevant information; even if such information succeeds in changing certain attitudes, beliefs, and values.
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ECONOMY

Economy and Bled
The clear message is that whoever has the resources should invest in the energy sector. One of the forum’s conclusions is that the role of the European Union in the future world depends precisely on the current way of managing the crisis in the energy sector.
  • 7 minutes read

YOUTH

Who wants Retraining and a Salary of 100,000 Dinars?
Out of 1.1 million young people, 179,000 were neither working nor studying or in training – they were in the so-called NEET (Neither in Employment nor in Education and Training) position.
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DIGITALIZATION

How does Everyone who Wants to be a Digital Citizen Become One?
The state should monitor trends in the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector and adapt its services to make them as accessible as possible to citizens.
  • 7 minutes read

DEPOPULATION

How many Students will Receive their Report Cards on June 28, 2089? Only the Labor Market and Depopulation know
The costs of implementing the proposed measure would range from 298 to 336 mil eur.
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INFLATION

Inflation Went up Like Grandma to the Pearly Gates
Inflation affecting a typical pensioner—an elderly woman with an average pension of 31,000—amounted to 10% in January this year. What she paid 31,000 for in 2021 now costs her 34,100.
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INFLATION

Is Inflation Personal and who Suffers the Most?
The conclusion is that inflation hurts and affects the most vulnerable and those with the lowest incomes the most, while for others it is a phenomenon that reduces purchasing power but one that people adapt to.
  • 4 minutes read

PURCHASING POWER

There goes Mile, Sipping an espresso
Kostolac is the place with the highest value of the espresso index at 161, meaning that the average monthly wallet there, in terms of purchasing power, is 61% stronger than the Serbian average.
  • 11 minutes read

YOUTH

The Students the Locusts have Eaten
“Students eaten by locusts” refers to those who enrolled in and graduated from faculties whose profiles are not in demand on the labor market, or for which there is simply no need for such a large number of graduates.
  • 6 minutes read

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