Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues

The article is dedicated to the research and assessment of trust and partnership impact throughout the main authors of innovation cooperation - universities, business and state. This impact is put on the innovative cooperation’s development of the border region (Latvia-Lithuania-Belarus) and production of innovative products and services in that region. The research region is consisting of the regions of Latvia (Latgale region), Lithuania (Vilnius region, Alytus region, Utena region, Panevezys region, Kaunas region), Belarus (Vitebsk, Grodno region, Minsk region, Mogilev region). Lack of attention to the above issues, related with border region, stresses the importance of the article. Innovations are key factor in long-term economic development of the region. The main condition for development is a purposeful formation and effective functioning of the territorial innovation system, in which one of the factors of its successful development is trust between participants of the system. The information base of the research is survey of 620 entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized enterprises in the border region.

Volunteering is generally considered an unpaid, conscious activity which is undertaken of a person’s own free will and for the benefit of other people or society. Volunteering on the field of fire protection is a specific and extremely valuable that volunteer firefighters are not only willing to help others selflessly. They are willing to risk at any time to save others their lives, health. This article points out the importance and activity of the voluntary fire protection in Slovakia. It deals with the statistics on the development of volunteer fire department in Slovakia as well as the statistics on fire alarms. The study also includes results of the public opinion poll and its evaluation, from which we can say that the public response to the work of volunteer fire department is positive.