Vladimir Zitek

Masaryk University | MUNI · Research Institute for Innovation, Department of Regional Economics and Administration

The paper deals with the just transformation of regions. Climate targets set by the Green Deal may have a crucial impact on some of them. The European Union's effort to become a climate-neutral economy by 2050 could threaten regions dependent on fossil fuels and industries with high carbon emissions. The main focus of this paper is put on the Just...

Background: Innovation policy supports innovation in companies, as it is crucial for economic, social and environmental development. Objectives: The research aims to verify whether companies that have received public support for innovation are experiencing turnover growth. Methods/Approach: The research is carried out on the example of the Czech In...

The paper deals with the spatial distribution of indirect support for research and development in the Czech Republic. This support has been provided to companies since 2005 and takes the form of deductions from the income tax base. The aim of the paper is to analyse the spatial allocation of indirect support for research and development in companie...

The paper aims to assess how public support for innovation activities influences the economic performance of Czech companies. In the framework of the research, attention was paid to more than 600 Czech companies that received support to start their innovation activities. The analysis was performed on the case of the Innovation Program, which was co...

Prior research showed that there is a growing consensus among researchers, which point out a key role of external knowledge sources such as external R&D and technologies in enhancing firms´ innovation. However, firms´ from catching-up Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have already shown in the past that their innovation models differ fro...

Marketing plans are one of the key strategic documents for the management of modern cities. If cities want to effectively use marketing tools to support the comprehensive development of their territory, it is necessary to design and implement their unique marketing strategy. A lot of European cities have been doing this for several decades, and the...

Innovation policy strives to support the creation and dissemination of innovation. For this purpose, it mainly uses tools that stimulate innovation supply, but in recent years, it has also increasingly implemented demand-oriented tools such as public procurement, support for private demand and regulation. The innovation policy defined in this way p...

Regional resilience is understood as the ability of the socioeconomic system to respond to rapid changes caused by various external factors. Such an external factor is the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, to which economies in many regions have not been able to respond adequately. They did not anticipate such a situatio...

Research and development is considered to be an essential source of innovation, especially of radical innovation. However, conducting research and development is expensive, and its results are uncertain. National governments, therefore, seek to motivate enterprises to invest in R&D by providing them with support for research activities. Direct supp...

The article deals with the implementation of innovation vouchers in the regions of the Czech Republic. The aim of the article is to compare Czech regions with regard to the use of innovation vouchers as a tool to stimulate innovation cooperation. Our paper is focused on national as well as regional innovation vouchers. First, innovation vouchers be...

Public support for research and development (R&D) in business sector is usually justified by the argument about market failure. New knowledge produced by research and development has some features of public good, which causes underinvestment in private R&D activities. From the social development point of view, it is desirable to produce and diffuse...

The article is based on the assumption that research and development is a crucial source for creating innovations and increasing competitiveness. There are significant disparities in research and development across the regions of the European Union. Some regions have long been considered European research leaders, and other regions perceive them as...

Evaluation of disparities through the characteristics of the innovation environment represents an important part of the research into regional economies. One of the respected approaches is the Regional Innovation Index created by the European Commission. It results in the ranking of the regions and their innovation position. In order to correctly i...

The history of the International Colloquium on Regional Sciences reaches back to 1998. Over the years, its format has dramatically changed and the Colloquium has become a respected event, which attracts dozens of experts from the field of regional research every year. The contributions focus on the issue of regional disparities, the impact of the p...

Research and development (R&D) is perceived as an important source for new innovation and innovation is the key driving force for economic development and competitiveness. This article deals with characteristics of research and development in the Czech and Slovak regions. Both states have common history, similar socio-economic conditions and simila...

This paper deals with the concept of differentiated knowledge bases, an area related to the study of the regional innovation systems. The concept explores the ways in which knowledge is involved in innovation processes and knowledge flows within and between organisations. Some limitation of this concept can be the fact that there is no clear method...

The role of regions in promoting innovation is gaining increasing significance. For a policy to be efficient, it is first necessary to analyze the innovation performance and the character of the innovation system. The aim of this paper is to propose and implement a methodology for the evaluation of regional innovation systems using the index of the...

Innovation is considered the main factor of social and economic development and the source of competitiveness of regions and countries. The research into innovation systems concentrates on innovative regions mainly and these are especially the metropolitan and urban areas. By contrast, a small attention is devoted to the innovation development in t...

Concepts of national and regional innovation systems can serve as an analytical framework forming the empirical base for innovation policy creation. It is possible to distinguish various types of these systems. One of these typologies is based on the assessment of innovation deficiencies. There are three types of regions: metropolitan, peripheral,...

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Příspěvek se zabývá problematikou implementace inovační politiky prostřednictvím regionálních inovačních strategií. Regionální inovační strategie je střednědobý dokument zahrnující vyvážený politický mix nástrojů, využívající strategické schopnosti a učení a podporující vazby regionálních aktérů. V ČR jej postupně schválily všechny kraje s výjimkou...

This paper deals with the competitiveness of regions and its possible measuring using composite indicators. Advantages of a composite index are that it summarizes more dimensions of competitiveness and the results can be comprehensibly interpreted for the public. The aims of this paper are to evaluate and compare the competitiveness of Czech region...

Clanek se zabýva rozdělenim prostředků vybraných operacnich programů mezi regiony Ceske republiky a hodnoti tak, zda je zde přitomný regionalni inovacni paradox. Inovacni paradox vyjadřuje situaci, kdy existuji regiony s nižsi inovacni výkonnosti a vyssi potřebou investic, ale tyto regiony nejsou schopne nabizene financni prostředky ziskat. Clanek...

This paper deals with allocation of financial resources from selected operational programmes among Czech regions and assess whether a regional innovation paradox occurs in the Czech Republic. Regional innovation paradox expresses a state when some regions with lower innovation performance and higher investment needs exist but at the same time these...

Přispěvek se zabýva problematikou implementace inovacni politiky prostřednictvim regionalnich inovacnich strategii. Regionalni inovacni strategie je střednědobý dokument zahrnujici vyvažený politický mix nastrojů, využivajici strategicke schopnosti a uceni a podporujici vazby regionalnich akterů. V CR jej postupně schvalily vsechny kraje s výjimkou...

Each region can be considered to be an individual regional innovation system. It is possible to distinguish various types of these systems. The approach based on assessment of deficiencies, which are organization thinness, lock-in effect and fragmentation, defines three types of imperfect regional innovation systems. The metropolitan regions are on...

This paper examines the issue of implementation of selected methods for evaluation of sector employment structure on the regional level. The most used methods are the index of specialisation, the localisation quotient and the gross index of diversification. By their implementation on real data of the Czech and the Slovak regions in 2012 some genera...

The article aims to compare the economic performance of north-eastern Baltic Sea regions with all 271 regions on the NUTS2 level in member states of the EU-27. The study is focused on Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Lithuanian and Latvian regions. The evaluation is based on the synthesis of selected indicators. The article focuses on evaluating the pre...

Pojem konkurenceschopnost slouži jako měřitko uspěsnosti podniků, statů i regionů, ktere se stale castěji stavaji objektem hodnoceni. Klicovým problemem je, jak ji měřit a jak odlisnosti v metodických postupech ovlivňuji výsledky. V clanku je navržena metodika hodnoceni založena na výpoctu souhrnneho indexu a aplikovana na vybrane NUTS 2 regiony. H...

The paper assesses the relationships between the quality of business and social environments on the example of micro-regions (districts of municipalities with extended powers) and meso-regions (NUTS 3) of the Czech Republic. The applied approach develops the concept of the quality of life including the identification of system links to regional com...

The assessment of knowledge infrastructure, implemented on the level of administrative districts of authorized municipalities – 206 units in total, is aimed at the institutional support for knowledge base development, the fundamental component of which is the infrastructure for education. The main attention is paid to the complexity of appropriate...

Innovations are generally considered a key factor of the socio-economic development and an important tool for productivity increase and added value growth. With increasing requirements for innovation creation the need to measure innovation performance emerges. The survey on innovations is called Community Innovation Survey and it is the basic stati...

The article deals with definition of the term “eco-innovation” and with the aspects that are related to them. Eco-innovations are innovations that contribute to reduction of negative environmental impacts caused by production and consumption. The article concerns with launching eco-innovations in the Czech regions and comparison the reached results...

The paper presents a new perspective on the issue of evaluating developmental disparities. The created methodology of the microeconomic evaluation consists of three main components: business environment quality, use of human resources, and innovation potential of companies. Further, the paper provides information on the results of the methodology b...

The aim of this article is to assess the economic performance of 271 regions on the level NUTS 2 in member states of the EU (EU-27). The evaluation presented in this study is based on the synthesis of selected available indicators (excluding GDP) which can be considered the key prerequisites for or aspects of the economic level of the regions and w...

Innovation Performance of the Czech Regions Innovations play the key role in the today's globalized world economy. This is a fact which also the European Union is aware of. Therefore, it is concerned with the innovation support. And individual national economies focus on the characteristics that influence their innovation potential. Several various...

1. vyd. Nad názvem: Masarykova univerzita, Ekonomicko-správní fakulta 25 výt. Část. tištěno napříč Na zadní s. obálky: Patriaplus

The future competitive advantage of states, regions and companies is not low costs but primarily innovations of products and services and everything that is related to them. When we try to achieve economic growth we have to also pay attention to environmental aspects of the growth. In connection with this the eco-innovations are widely discussed re...

As soon as the Czech Republic entered the EU, it took part in the system of supporting innovation enterprise from the structural funds. In programming period 2004-2006 the Innovation programme and the Prosperity programme were launched within the Operational Programme Industry and Enterprise framework. These programmes continue in a modified form w...

The submitted paper brings the most important results of a wide research study that is an output of the first stage of a three year research project whose key solvers are the authors. The study is focused on the quality of the business environment in the Czech Republic. The evaluation is carried out at microregional level which is represented by 20...

At present, innovations play a key role in the economic development of regions, national economies and also global corporations. The innovation policy has been considered an inseparable part of the economic policy for a number of years; a lot of instruments known and used in other fields of the economic policy find their use in the policy focused o...

Innovations are generally considered a key factor of the socio-economic development. Innovation policy strives to create favourable conditions for introduction and diffusion of innovations. The Czech Republic has dealt with this topic intensively since the turn of the century. Another trend in innovation policy has been detected over the world in t...

1. vyd. 300 výt. Nad názvem: Masarykova univerzita, Ekonomicko-správní fakulta