Victor Cepoi, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Dr. Victor Cepoi is Assistant Professor at the School of Advanced Social Studies in Nova Gorica, Slovenia (SASS) and Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto, Slovenia (FIS). He received his Ph.D. in 2018 at SASS on the topic of Regional Innovation Performance. His research interests include: European regional development, innovation performance in the EU, social capital and research methodologies. He was engaged in several international projects.
These include two Interreg Danube Programme projects: High-performance Computing for Effective Innovation in the Danube Region (InnoHPC) and Fostering Innovation in the Danube Region through Knowledge Engineering and IPR Management (KnowING IPR). Additionally, Victor was engaged in several projects co-financed by Erasmus+ programme: Enabling SMEs to gain competitive advantage from the use of HPC, Boosting Innovation in Curricula Development of IT Programs in Palestine and Designstem: integrated design + STEM education.
Cepoi, Victor. A meta-analysis and explanation of innovation processes through the outline of social fields theory. Research in social change, vol. 12, issue 3, pp. 15-31, 2020
Cepoi, Victor. National Case Study in the Danube Region: Ukraine. In: Rončević B., Coscodaru R. and Fric Urška (eds.). Go with the flow: high performance computing and innovations in the Danube region. Vega Press, 2019
Kantor Irina and Cepoi Victor. From Neglect to Crime – The Role of Media In 2015. European Migration Crisis. A Comparative Study in Three ECE Countries: Romania, Hungary and Slovenia. In: Balica E and Marinescu V (eds.), Migration and Crime: Realities and Media Representation. Palgrave, 2018
Roncevic Borut, Makarovic Matej, Tomsic Matevz and Cepoi Victor. Methodological Solutions for Comparative Research on Transformations. In: Vihalemm P, Masso A, Opermann S(eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Social Transformation. Routledge, 2018.
Cepoi Victor and Golob Tea. Innovation Performance in the EU Comparative Perspective: The Interplay of Social Forces in the Context of National Innovation Systems. Comparative Sociology, 2017, Vol. 16, issue 4, pp. 555-579
Mikulan Kildi Janja and Cepoi, Victor. The importance of the political order for peace. Journal of aggression, conflict and peace research, 2017, Vol. 9, issue 1, pp. 24-37
Cepoi Victor. Trust and participation in the information society: new and traditional information sources. In Rončević Borut and Tomšič Matevž (eds.), Information society and its manifestations: economy, politics, culture. Frankfurt am Main [etc.]: Peter Lang, 2017.
Cepoi Victor. Does trust make people more civically moral?: an empirical study for the Romanian and Moldovan societies. Raziskave in razprave, 2016, Vol. 9, no. 1/3, pp. 264-307
Cepoi, Victor. Do social forces matter?: a model for innovation and development performance. Research in social change, 2016, vol. 8, issue 3, pp. 4-27
Cepoi Victor and Golob Tea. Regional innovation performance: measuring development in cultural, social and economic perspectives. Innovation Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences, 2016, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 242 – 260
Cepoi Victor. Trust: A Diversity approach. in Trust, Social Capital and Democratic participation: A literature Review. Accent, Romania, 2013.
Conference Proceedings
Cepoi Victor and Rončević Borut. Social fields theory explaining innovations and developmental performance. 4th International Conference on Economics, Political and Law Sciences (Business and economic series), 2015, pp. 38 – 47
Cepoi Victor. Democracy at a new crossroad for Eastern Europe. 4th International Conference on Economics, Political and Law Sciences (Business and economic series), 2015, pp. 111 – 117
Cepoi Victor. An explanatory model for innovation: a focus on cognitive frames. 4th International Conference on Economics, Political and Law Sciences (Business and economic series), 2015, pp. 182 – 188
Cepoi Victor. Regional development performance – a focus on the innovation processes. Mathematical and Computational Methods in Applied Sciences. Mathematics and Computers in Science and Engineering Series, 2015, pp. 132 – 139
Cepoi Victor. The role of Social Networks in the framework of the Regional Development. in Mathematical and Computational Methods in Applied Sciences. Mathematics and Computers in Science and Engineering Series, 2015, pp. 112 – 119
