A Proposal for a Standard With Innovation Management System

Adina Catana and Lavinia Delcea
Moreover, as the UK economy continues its tentative crawl out of a damaging recession, and the
onus is put on the private sector to provide employment while the public sector contracts, we consider
that any opportunity to improve the local labor market deserves proper consideration.
Further on we shall evaluate the hypothesis that trade is an important sector which provides a
significant number of jobs. The North-West Region had in 2010 the most vacancies in commerce and
retail out of Romania’s development regions, meaning that there is a big labor demand, therefore
many available jobs.
Source: The authors according to the data available on Romania’s National Institute of Statistics
Figure 3: Vacancies in commerce and retail in Romania’s development regions
Also, out of the total of 752,216 employees from the trade sector in 2010, 99,490 representing
13.23% are in the North-West Region of Romania.
2.2 The importance of the commercial sector in the economy
In order to highlight the importance of the commercial sector in the economy, we chose to analyze the
main economic sectors contributing to GDP in 2008. We examined the following categories of
activities: real estate, financial services, construction, tourism, trade, energy, mining and quarrying,
manufacturing, fishing and agriculture.
Source: The authors according to the data available on the Romania’s National Institute of Statistics
Figure 4: Monetary contribution of major economic sectors to GDP, at the North-West Region’s level
in 2008
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