In recent years, the concept of Regional Innovation Systems has evolved into a widely used analytical framework generating the empirical foundation for innovation policy making. Yet, the approaches utilizing this framework remain ambiguous on such key issues as the territorial dimension of...

The paper “Possibilities of regional disparities´ measurement – a new viewpoint” is devoted to the description and analysis of utilization of statistical-mathematic methods with whose help it is possible to expertly evaluate trends and development trends in the field of regional...

Small and medium size enterprises in the Moravia-Silesian Region and issues associated with their development can be examined from various points of view. These aspects have to be synthetically linked, since we can state that individual factors are mutually interconnected. Development of small...

Brownfields are old, unused sites and buildings located in urban areas and open countryside. This article deals with problems of brownfields that developed as a result of restructuring national industry, a decreased significance of primary and secondary industry, and the increase of tertiary...

The paper provides an exploratory analysis of regional dynamics among 264 NUTS2 EU-27 regions over the period 1992-2006. Seven different regional indicators are analyzed including wages, household expenditures, retail sales, investments, productivity, GDP, and GDP adjusted for international...

Czech Abstract: Tato studie zkoumá umění tvorby módních hesel (buzzword) a jejich použití v koncepcích inteligentních měst (smart city) a obecně i ve společenských vědách. Analýza se zaměřuje na důležitost vytváření hesel, jejich prospěšného a nevhodného použití v...

The authors' approach to the ethical and political aspects of inter-temporal interactions is the following: 1) Two representative agents Ra and Râ are analyzed and asymmetries in their wealth and voting powers are dealt with by a the text-book tool of a welfare function - its intra and...