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The Influence of Cross-Border Cooperation on the Competitiveness of Euroregions
FRIEDRICHS, Marco Jerome
This master's thesis analyses the influence of cross-border cooperation on the competitiveness of Euroregions by means of a comparative case study of two selected Euroregions: the Greater Region at the intersection of the borders between the states of Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Germany, and the Euregio Egrensis, covering territories of the Czech Republic and the three German Länder Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia. The research objective raised first and foremost two questions: How to measure the influence of cross-border cooperation and how to measure the competitiveness of (Euro)regions? This thesis is therefore divided into two parts. First, the key concepts of Euroregions, cross-border cooperation and regional competitiveness are discussed at length as all of them are demanding notions in their own right and their understanding critical for the success of the subsequent comparative case study, which then forms this thesis's second part.
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Automobilový průmysl jako faktor regionální konkurenceschopnosti v České republice
Rejka, Martin ; Pělucha, Martin (advisor) ; Květoň, Viktor (referee)
The automotive industry is one of the most important industries in the Czech Republic. This diploma thesis identifies its main characteristics and assesses its impact on regional competitiveness. The hypothesis tested in the practical section of this thesis is that suppliers producing high value-added products contribute to regional competitiveness more than suppliers of simple products. A review of relevant theories provides a sound reasoning to support this hypothesis. An analysis of available data from the Czech Republic, however, leads to a rejection of this hypothesis as the results from the practical part signalise that in the Czech Republic the impact of suppliers of simple products is higher than the impact of high value-added suppliers.
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Selected Factors of Competitiveness of Tourist Destinations
Šašková, Hana ; Luštický, Martin (advisor) ; Musil, Martin (referee)
The subject of the thesis named "The selected factors of competitiveness of tourist destinations", is defining issues of the regions, regional competitiveness and ways to measure it. This work is divided into two parts. In theoretical part I describe the characteristics of tourism, the competitiveness of tourism and ways of its measuring. In the practical part I concentrate on the Shumava-west microregion, analysis of selected factors of destination competitiveness and comparison of selected factors of competitiveness of two microregions. The conclusion consists of summary rating and improving proposals for the status of the Shumava-west microregion on the tourism market.
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Impact of support for small and medium enterprises on competitiveness of czech regions
Toman, Vladimír ; Tyll, Ladislav (advisor) ; Krause, Josef (referee)
The diploma thesis is focused on evaluating the impact of programs supporting small and medium enterprises on the competitiveness of czech regions. The first part defines small and medium enterprises and their importance. The second section focuses on describing the various forms of supports for small and medium enterprises. The third part is divided into the three chapters. The first part deals with the specificities of the czech regions. The second chapter analyzes the effectiveness and real impact of the two major programs for supporting entrepreneurship. There are used three different analyzes: analysis of the efficiency of allocation, convergence analysis and correlation analysis of transferred resources and competitiveness factors. The conclusion of this section is accompanied by recommendations for regional policy.
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Competitiveness of Moravian regions in tourism
Lukášová, Jitka ; Vaško, Martin (advisor) ; Valentová, Jana (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with complex evaluation of tourism competitiveness of five Moravian regions. First chapter explains basic definitions related to the tourism and regional competitiveness. Second chapter analyzes in detail natural conditions, economics, transport, people and tourism of the regions. In the third chapter, the competitiveness of Moravian regions in three areas (economics, people and tourism) and as a whole is examined through the method of the economic n-angle.
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Regional competitive advantage growth at the instance of the South Bohemian Region.
VLAŠÁNKOVÁ, Karolína
The objective of this work was to identify the main presumptions of regional competitiveness and their application to partitular NUTS 3 regions of the Czech Republic with the main focus on the South-Bohemian region. In the first part of the thesis following crucial factors that influence regional competitveness were defined: economic and inovative efficiency, research and development, foreign investments, economic structure and human resources qualities. According to these factors the NUTS 3 regions were compared and their competitiveness were analysed in the second part. Disparities between NUTS 3 regions were found and regions were dividend into few groups in respect for their cometitiveness level. It was revealed that the competitiveness of South-Bohemian region is above the average of the Czech Republic in the most of aspects perused.
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