Territorial Effects of EU Cohesion Policy Supporting Entrepreneurship: Findings from the Czech Republic
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/61384399:31130/20:00055935
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54502-4_11" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54502-4_11</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54502-4_11" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-54502-4_11</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Territorial Effects of EU Cohesion Policy Supporting Entrepreneurship: Findings from the Czech Republic
Original language description
European cohesion policy aims to mitigate regional disparities and foster regions that are economically lagging behind. One way to encourage economic activities in such under-developed regions is through supporting entrepreneurship. The study explores the territorial effects of public subsidies aimed at promoting the competitiveness of Czech enterprises. The analysis evaluates the impact of the largest Czech entrepreneurship policy - Operational Programme Enterprise and Innovation (OPEI) and its regional firm-level effects. Funded by the European Regional and Development Fund, part of EU cohesion policy, it ran from 2007 to 2013. The research exploits a microeconomic dataset of 3614 supported and 6622 non-supported companies, and empirically assesses whether the outcomes of the policy differed territorially across the Czech NUTS 3 regions 2 years after the end of the intervention. The method used is the counterfactual impact evaluation. For that purpose, we operationalise firm-level competitiveness by financial performance indicators. The findings show that the effects of EU cohesion policy differed across the Czech NUTS 3 regions. The confirmed cross-regional effects of public interventions have implications for the future adjustments of cohesion policy. Accordingly, we argue that adapting calls to the specificities of the different locations (NUTS 3 regions) would enhance the response to the local needs and challenges faced by local authorities and improve the place-based character of EU cohesion policy.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50204 - Business and management
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Territorial Impact Assessment
ISBN
978-3-030-54501-7
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
195-210
Number of pages of the book
239
Publisher name
Springer Switzerland
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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