Spatial dimension of Czech enterprise support policy: Where are public expenditures allocated?

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Result on the web

<a href="http://nho.econ.muni.cz/18-2018/4-2018" target="_blank" >http://nho.econ.muni.cz/18-2018/4-2018</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/revecp-2018-0017" target="_blank" >10.2478/revecp-2018-0017</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Spatial dimension of Czech enterprise support policy: Where are public expenditures allocated?

Original language description

The purpose of the present paper is to find whether the spatial distribution of enterprise support policy funds meet the spatial objectives stated in Czech strategic documents related to enterprise support policy. Are more funds allocated in lagging regions, and does enterprise support policy contribute more to the convergence objective, or are more funds allocated in core regions, and does enterprise support policy contribute more to the competitiveness objective? These questions are answered by evaluating the Structural (and Cohesion) Fund (SF) expenditures that were allocated on operations categorised as part of enterprise support policy (2007-2013). The dependent variable relates to 206 regions, and SF expenditures are calculated for every inhabitant of a region. Moreover, two types of SF operation are distinguished: (a) innovationoriented operations; and (b) other enterprise support operations. Three explanatory variables are defined using Principal Components Analysis (PCA), and these components are understood as: (1) the social disadvantage of regions; (2) the innovation environment of regions; and (3) the quality of regional entrepreneurial environments. The associations between the dependent and explanatory variables are subsequently evaluated by methods of correlation and regression analysis. The findings provide some evidence for both the convergence and competitiveness objectives. Nevertheless, this evidence is rather limited due to a low spatial concentration of SF allocation, and the compensatory effect between the two thematic types of SF operations. Hence, while the quality of their innovation environment has a positive influence on regional SF allocation regardless of the thematic focus of SF operations, socially disadvantaged regions received more funds for SF operations which are not innovation-oriented. The capacity of potential beneficiaries to prepare and submit many project proposals for SF co-financing is the main reason for high or low SF allocation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50602 - Public administration

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Národohospodářský obzor - Review of Economic Perspectives

ISSN

1213-2446

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

333-351

UT code for WoS article

000452436400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85058636419