The role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in establishing of knowledge economy in the Czech Republic: the case of knowledge intensive business services.

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in establishing of knowledge economy in the Czech Republic: the case of knowledge intensive business services.

Original language description

Over last five years or so we can witness substantial changes in economic and geographical structures of national economies of new member states of the EU leading hopefully from branch plant economies towards high-road strategy of their socioeconomic development. The paper is dealing with emerging sector of knowledge economy ? knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) in the context of broader transition process with using the theoretical framework borrowed from institutional economy and new economicsociology in a geographical context. Substantial role on the way towards knowledge based economy (KBE) is played by KIBS. The most important actors influencing this process in new European Union (EU) member states are foreign direct investment (FDI) andinstitutional setting on national and EU level. An example of successful connection between FDI in KIBS and public infrastructure is presented on the Czech state level in comparison with other Visegrad countries. A case study of Prague i

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DE - Earth magnetism, geodesy, geography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GP402%2F06%2FP089" target="_blank" >GP402/06/P089: Knowledge-intensive services, regional development and post-communist transformation: towards knowledge-based economy?</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2009

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Problems in the Formation of Industrial Spatial Structures and their Surrounding. Prace Komisji Geografii Przemyslu Polskiego Towarzystwa Geograficznego

ISSN

2080-1653

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

14

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

9

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