A Proposal for a Standard With Innovation Management System

Adina Catana and Lavinia Delcea
Source: The authors according to the data available on Romania’s National Institute of Statistics
Figure 5: Percentage contribution of major economic sectors to GDP, at the North-West region’s level
in 2008
From the graphs above it can be seen that in 2008 the manufacturing industry had the greatest
contribution to regional GDP, with a gross value added of 12,730 million lei, namely 24.68% of BIP.
Trade is the second sector contributing to GDP with 6,406.3 million lei, with a share of 12.43% of
GDP. Being closely interlinked with real estate transactions that contributed to GDP with
6,342.5 million lei, representing12.2%, the construction sector is the next important contributor to
GDP with 5,570.9 million lei, respectively 10.8%, because of the investments of the real estate
developers in this market.
At national level, the contribution of economic sectors to the formation of regional GDP indicates a
share of 16.3% for agriculture, 35% for the secondary sector and 46.7% for tertiary sectors, with
services growth and reducing agricultural activities in terms of evolution. Significant increases were
noted in civil and industrial building: housing, shopping centers. Some differences between counties
can be also noted: some of them are more industrialized; others are based on primary activities,
especially agriculture and farming (Romania’s National Institute of Statistics data).
2.2 The importance of the trade sector for the labor market
According to Karel De Gucht (2012) Trade Commissioner from European Commission, trade is
working for Europe's economic recovery by ensuring growth and jobs. The European renewed trade
strategy will open markets and connect Europe to the main sources and regions of global growth. The
aim is to ensure that European business gets a fair deal and that countries’ rights are respected so
that all of them could enjoy the benefits of trade.
Clearly, trade is a sector that offers a large number of jobs. To strengthen this assertion we examined
to what extent the main economic sectors have reduced unemployment by attracting labor. The study
includes the number of employees drawn by the analyzed economic sectors during 2000 - 2008.
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