The aim of the article is to analyse use of the EU Structural Funds for innovative projects in SMEs from Regional Operational Programme of Pomorskie Voivodeship for 2007-2013. In the analysis we use the data from the Pomerania Development Agency Inc. In the first section we described conditions...

Review of theoretical literature suggests that a higher level of concentration of economic activity, and hence the degree of clustering of the regional economy, should have a positive impact on the export potential of regions. This hypothesis is verified in the case of Polish provinces. As a...

The paper relates to factors determining regional competitiveness in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia - the Visegrad Group. The study starts from a comprehensive survey of the literature on regional competitiveness and the potential effects of innovation. The theoretical section...

Economic and Monetary Union is an unprecedented event in the monetary history of Europe. The eurozone since its creation 13 years ago expanded to 17 Member States and functioned relatively smoothly up to the outset of the global financial crisis. Only the severity of the subsequent eurozone...

Accumulation of human capital is one of the major determinants of economic growth. In the last decades, theoretical and empirical literature has analysed this issue at regional level, providing interesting results. The analysis focuses on 35 regions of the Visegrad Group (NUTS-2 level) in...

The paper relates to factors determining regional competitiveness in Poland. The aim of the empirical analysis is to compare competitive ability of regions in Poland (NUTS-2 level) in 2001-2010 and to verify the existence of clusters. It is based on two data sources: Eurostat Regional Statistics...

Celem artyku³u jest analiza roli instytucji w rozwoju gospodarki opartej na wiedzy. Instytucje to zintegrowana sieæ powiazañ funkcjonuj¹ca w ró¿nych systemach (ekonomicznych i spo³ecznych), skalach (lokalnej, regionalnej i krajowej), i poziomach (jednostek, organizacji i ca³ego...

Methods of identification of external effects of functioning of industrial clusters. The aim of the paper is to present methods used to identify the external effects of the industrial clusters. One of them is to evaluate a regional growth regression with a cluster index as one of the explanatory...

Funkcjonowanie przedsiêbiorstw w obecnej dobie globalizacji gospodarki œwiatowej, w warunkach burzliwego, niestabilnego otoczenia oko³obiznesowego, determinowane jest podejmowaniem wyrafinowanych dzia³añ strategicznych zmierzaj¹cych do generowania wartoœci przedsiêbiorstwa i utrzymania...

The goal of this article is to investigate structural adjustments in trade relations of the Visegrad countries resulting from their accession into the European Union and advanced stage of economic transition. Particular emphasis is placed on the similarity of adjustments in geographic trade...