Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Eliška Kačírková
Title: Competitiveness of the Czech Republic - Sustainability and the Social Aspect of Competitiveness
Abstract: The objective of the study is to analyse the Czech position in the fi eld of global competitiveness. In the past, the only data used for evaluating the position of a country were “hard data”: data that were measurable. Nowadays, many research institutions as well as scientists have come with a new idea. Not only hard data are important for a country’s position in the competitiveness rank, but also soft data have to be taken into account. The General Competitiveness Index (GCI), used for measuring competitiveness, has been replaced with the Sustainability- adjusted Competitiveness Index (SCI). Two sustainability pillars are added to the general competitiveness: the social sustainability pillar and the environmental sustainability pillar. This study analyses the GCI and the SCI in the context of sustainability. The main objective is to fi nd out how these two sustainability pillars infl uence the competitiveness position of the Czech Republic. The method used in the study is an analysis and comparison of the hard and soft data, which means that it is based on a multidimensional analysis used by the WEF and the IMD. The study confi rms that there is an increasing infl uence of these soft - qualitative - data.
Keywords: Czech Republic, competitiveness, sustainability, GCI, SCI
Classification-JEL: F43, O44, P51
Pages: 3-26
Volume: 2015
Issue: 1
Year: 2015
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Marek Jemala
Author-Name: Ľubomír Jemala
Title: How Are Technologies Patented in Developed and Developing Countries of EU?
Abstract: In recent years, it is not only a researcher, or a developer, who is important for technology innovation, but increasingly important there have become the micro and macro environment of the institution/company. Since, many times, technology innovation requires cooperation within the business microenvironment and supportive legal, political, economic, social or environmental factors. As analogies in Japan, USA, India, or China, also the European Community has to respond adequately to this trend through supportive legislation, management, infrastructure and cooperation. The key research question of this analysis is, how big is the difference in technological innovation/patenting between developed and developing countries of the EU and why? Also, the selected issues and challenges of technological innovation and management create the input into this systemic study of technology patenting in the EU countries since 1980.
Keywords: EU, research and development, Foresight, innovation, technology, patents, policy, strategy
Classification-JEL: O31, O32, O33, O34, O52
Pages: 27-44
Volume: 2015
Issue: 1
Year: 2015
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Michal Mádr
Author-Name: Luděk Kouba
Title: The Impact of Institutional Environment on Inflows of Foreign Direct Investment in European Transition Economies and Latin American Countries
Abstract: The main objective of the paper is to identify and quantify the infl uence of institutional environment on infl ows of foreign direct investment in European post-socialist countries and countries of Latin America. The reference period is the period 1996-2012 due to data availability. The World Bank Governance Matters concept is used as the basic indicator of institutional environment. Panel data regression analysis is used for the identifi cation and quantifi cation purposes. According to the results, the infl uence of institutional environment on FDI is not entirely unequivocal in the European transition economies, but it is statistically signifi cant in the Latin American countries. Furthermore, there are statistically signifi cant areas - quality of democracy and government eff ectiveness - in the post-socialist countries, and all the institutional areas except the level of democracy in Latin America, mainly regulatory quality and rule of law.
Keywords: foreign direct investment, institutional environment, transition economies, Latin America, Governance Matters
Classification-JEL: F21, P16, P26
Pages: 45-60
Volume: 2015
Issue: 1
Year: 2015
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Pavel Sirůček
Title: Half-Forgotten Personalities of Economic Thought - Richard Cantillon
Abstract: Richard Cantillon was an irish merchant and banker whose birth, youth, fi nancila activities and even death are secret. We know that he operated in France. Nowadays there has preserved the only his book, but this is often considered to be the fi rst trully systematic economic treatise. Cantillon contributed to many economic topics and in many of them he was the fi rst author.
Pages: 61-68
Volume: 2015
Issue: 1
Year: 2015
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Monika Randáková
Title: Expert work on accounting with new scientific procedures
Pages: 69-71
Volume: 2015
Issue: 1
Year: 2015
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