Development potential of the European territory:
A literature review
EVA POLEDNÍKOVÁ
Faculty of Economics, Department of European Integration
VŠB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic
20TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON REGIONAL SCIENCES
Kurdějov, June 14–16, 2017
CONTENT
• MOTIVATION AND AIM OF PAPER
• METHODOLOGY OF PAPER
• RESULTS
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES
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MOTIVATION AND AIM OF PAPER
• European regions ‒ key internal and external challenges.
• The EU’s diversity and inequalities.
• No uniform theoretical approaches and consensus on the
evaluation of territorial development potential in the EU.
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MOTIVATION AND AIM OF PAPER
• The aim of the paper is to analyse the existing approaches to
development potential, specialization and performance of the
European territory and to identify the factors, indicators and
methods used to development potential evaluation.
• The initial and essential phase of the further research under
specific research project.
• Hypothesis: Territory with lower levels of disparities and a
high level of cohesion achieve higher levels of development
potential and competitiveness.
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MOTIVATION AND AIM OF PAPER
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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Impact of Economic Shocks on Efficiency and Competitiveness of the European Union in
Terms of Regional and International Levels: Nonparametric Approach
Project registration number: SP 2015/106 (Ing. Michaela Staníčková, Ph.D.)
Period of research: 1. 1. – 31. 12. 2015
Recipient:
VŠB –Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Economics,
Department of European Integration
Regional Specialization and Diversity of the EU 28 NUTS 2 regions: Analysis of
Regional Dynamics Determinants
Project registration number: SP 2017/111 (Ing. Michaela Staníčková, Ph.D.)
Period of research: 1. 1. – 31. 12. 2017
Recipient:
VŠB –Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of
Economics, Department of European Integration
METHODOLOGY OF PAPER
• The method of literature review ‒ territorial unit,
factors/indicators, methods and results.
• Citation databases of Web of Science, Scopus and EBSCO,
internet search engine Google and Google Scholar.
• Keywords, e.g.: indicators/factors of development potential,
regional development, socio-economic development, growth,
performance, specialization, inequalities.
• English and Czech languages, the period 2000‒2017.
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RESULTS OF LITERATURE REVIEW - Territorial level, Factors
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RESULTS OF LITERATURE REVIEW – Methods, Results
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RESULTS OF LITERATURE REVIEW – Methods, Results
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RESULTS OF LITERATURE REVIEW
Proposal of dimensions for Composite Development Potential Index
• Total of 57 literature resources, the period 2000‒2017 (2012-2015).
• EU regions at different territorial level (11 NUTS 2).
• Some common dimensions/indicators of development potential:
– exogenous x endogenous
– economic x social (x environmental)
– development potential of demography; infrastructure (social,
economic, technical); natural resources; economic structure;
research and development; innovation and creativity;
entrepreneurship; human capital; regional specialisations;
geographical proximity; socio-economic readiness etc.
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CONCLUSION
• Most of the authors point out NUTS 3 regions or rural areas, apply
the statistical method/ econometric models, show different results.
• No one of the theories, available methods and indicators can be
considered as universal.
• Each state, region or rural areas has its own history, current level of
development, present potential and future opportunities, which
makes it impossible to implement common development strategies.
• Some common dimensions of indicators for construction of
Composite Development Potential Index can be identified.
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Questions/suggestions…?
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
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