Regional Economics II
This course may be divided into two parts: theory and application. The theoretical part gives a complete survey of regional development theories. The applicational part emphasizes the issue of evaluation of business environment quality, which together with quality of firms represent basic components of regional competitiveness, and further selected partial issues (e. g. interactive models of regional competitiveness, international collaboration of SMEs). Relevant knowledge is consequently interpreted with regard to creation of conceptional and strategic documents targeted at regional development support and their utilization in relation to specific tools of regional development support (predominantly investment incentives and regional marketing).
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Syllabus
1. Neoclassic and neoliberal theories of regional development (e. g. growth accounting, new economic geography and new theory of growth) and its transfer to regional policy.
2. Keynesian theories (e. g. Harrod-Domar growth model, theory of unbalanced development) and its transfer to regional policy.
3. Structural and regulative theories (neomarxist theories, Californian school) and its transfer to regional policy.
4. Critical-realistic and institutional theories (theory of divisions of labour, theory of learning regions)and its transfer to regional policy.
5. Contemporary regional policy in interaction to regional development theories (summary).
6. Regional interdependence and conditionality of regional development (potential of influence and potential of reaction).
7- International collaboration of small and medium enterprises (main types of collaboration, start-up phase of collaboration, supporting infrastructure).
8. Evaluation of business environment quality (national and reginal evaluation models), searching of main factors and entrepreneurial preferences.
9. Application of regional evaluation model on the example of the Czech Republic (developmental changes of entrepreneurial preferences).
10. Economic integration of space (creation of territorial development axis and entrepreneurial nets).
11. Investment incentives and their systems (examples of chosen states including the Czech Republic).
12. Regional marketing, chosen examples (types of marketing strategies, choice of marketing mix).
13. Market oriented strategy of regional development, theoretical starting points and practical continuities.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The capacity limit for the course is 70 student(s).
