Szeged

University of Szeged Faculty of Economics and Business Administration ​Member since 2015

The University of Szeged (USZ) continuously ranks as a top-3 Hungarian and top-500 European university in various academic surveys. Its 12 faculties offer complete training from BSc to PhD level in all traditional academic disciplines to over 26 000 students.

It has participated in over 70 FP7 research projects, several bilateral and national projects and participates in several tens of international education and research co-operations. USZ researchers have published over 2000 peer-reviewed scientific publications in the last 3 years. The University administration is experienced in managing European projects and operates central services to assist researchers in financial administration, recruitment, public tenders, intellectual property rights issues and technology transfer.

In terms of responsible innovation, the following information should be highlighted:

• FaRInn project (2012-2014) – Facilitating Responsible Innovation in South East Europe (www.farinn.eu): the aim of the project was to introduce responsible innovation concept to South-East European countries. In the project the University of Szeged and Miklos Lukovics himself was the coordinator of workpackage 3 which was designed to elaborate the whole theoretical background of the project in terms of responsible innovation. Furthermore, in the 4th workpackage a dissemination plan was developed to propagate responsible innovation concept in the surrounding area and the project team was able to integrate RI-related policy goals to the county’s development plan.
• Based on the project mentioned above, we have special expertise in the specialities of RRI in South-East European Countries.
• The University of Szeged and Miklos Lukovics played a pioneer, dominant role in the dissemination of RRI principles in a lagging behind region in Hungary. We organized a network of stakeholders and started to introduce the notion of RRI into the public knowledge in our region.
• As members of the strategic advisory board of the regional planning we achieved that the Responsible Innovation is named now in the Operational Program of Csongrád County in Hungary. This is the first operational program in Hungary, where RRI is mentioned!
• We organized the first RRI events in Hungary.
• We are on building in capacities in our Doctoral School of Economics to a PhD topic on responsible innovation
• We organized and helped our colleagues to find the linkages between their own research area and RRI, and based on that we edited book on responsible innovation: Norbert Buzás, Miklós Lukovics (eds.): Responsible Innovation, University of Szeged, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Szeged, 2014, ISBN: 978-963-306-292-0

VIRI Leader Miklos Lukovics is associate professor in the University of Szeged Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.

Selected RRI Publications

Buzás, Norbert and Miklós Lukovics, eds. 2014. Responsible Innovation. Szeged: University of Szeged Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.

Blaskó, Brigitta, Miklós Lukovics, and Norbert Buzás. 2014. "Good Practices in Responsible Innovation." In Responsible Innovation, eds. Norbert Buzás and Miklos Lukovics. Szeged: University of Szeged Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, 179-192.

Gyurkovics, János and Miklós Lukovics. 2014. "Generations of Science Parks in the Light of Responsible Innovation." In Responsible Innovation, eds. Norbert Buzás and Miklos Lukovics. Szeged: University of Szeged Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, 193-208.

Deák, István and Miklós​ Lukovics. 2014. "Responsible Innovation and R&D&I Controlling." In Responsible Innovation, eds. Norbert Buzás and Miklos Lukovics. Szeged: University of Szeged Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, 101-120.

Lukovics,  Miklós​ and Bence Zuti. 2013. "Successful Universities Towards the Improvement of Regional Competitiveness: 'Fourth Generation' Universities." Presented at the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) 53rd Congress, Palermo.