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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Regional Policy

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 118-0345/02
Abbreviation REG POL
Course title Regional Policy
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Regional and Environmental Economics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Jan Sucháček, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Basis for Regional Policy (RP):
- Definition of the region in theory and in practice, groups of actors in space.
- The processes of merging of the main objectives, changes in the implementation and RP pillars of the strategy.
2. The definition and use of economic arguments RP
- Definition: general, Czech, British, Austrian and evaluation.
- Reasons for regional and political interventions (economic, social and environmental).
3. The concept of RP strategies: issues, assumptions and practical applications
- strategy focused on mobility: access Neoclassical and Keynesian approach.
- Endogenous strategy: Technological innovation and orientation.
- The concept of "learning regions" and "place shaping" (by Glaser).
- Selectivity in RP: Competitive and insurance.
4. Regional Economic Intervention
- Classical, Breakdown (by Vanhove, Klaassen).
- Depending on the effect of target recipients and type of activity (by Maier, Tödtling)
- Regional Programmes: the DP and sectoral policies in the country.
5. Institutional arrangements for regional policy in the CR: national and regional
- Program regional papers: The EU and CR: a list, the content and role.
- The seven principles of the RP rule: their effectiveness in development.
6. Objects of regional interventions
- Innovation, clusters, the role of cities in the region, destination management
- Foreign direct investment, ICT and marketing in regional politics.
- Regional aspects of certain changes and new approaches to management.

Literature

1. ARMSTRONG, H. and J. TAYLOR. Regional Economics and Policy. Third Edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2000. 450 p. ISBN 0-631-21657-X .
2. KERN, J., J. MALINOVSKÝ a J. SUCHÁČEK (eds.) Learning Regions in Theory and Practice. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2006. 227 s. ISBN 978-80-248-1464-3.
3. VANHOVE, N. and L. H. KLAASSEN. Regional Policy - European Approach. Avenburg, …, Gower Publisching Company Limited, 1987. ISBN 0-566-05413-2.

Advised literature

1. DUNNING, John, H. (ed.). Regions, Globalization and the Knowledge-Based Economy. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 506 p. ISBN 0-19-925001-4 .
2. FLORIDA, R. The Rise of the Creative Class. 10th Anniversary Edition--Revised and Expanded. New York: Perseus Book Group, 2012. 483 p. ISBN 978-0-465-02993-8.
3. KLASIK, Andrzej (ed.). The Cities and Agglomerations Development Based on the Culture Sector and Creative Industries. Warsaw: Polish Academy of Science, 2011. 428 p. ISBN978-83-89693-17-4 .
4. SUCHÁČEK, Jan. Territorial Development Reconsidered. Ostrava: VŠB – TU Ostrava, 2008. 189 p. ISBN 978-80-248-1876-4.
5. Papers from ERSA congresses. Available at: http://www.ekf.vsb.cz/projekty/cs/weby/esf-0116/databaze-prispevku/.