Th e paper deals with the evaluation sub-measures of the "Cooperation for development of new products, processes and technologies, respectively the innovation in the food industry". It is a sub-measure under the Rural Development Plan (I. 1.3.2). Th e rating refers to the current programming period, but it was made in the context of a preparation of the new programming for 2014-2020. Strengthening of the cooperation and effi ciency factors accelerating the innovation processes in food can act as a tool to gain competitive advantage for the future. It was based on the on-line survey on innovation in food companies, which are mainly in addition of supporting the product and process innovation demonstrating the eff ectiveness of the promotion of energy-reducing eff ects, increasing productivity and improving systems of logistics and distribution. Th is survey is indicative only. Th erefore, the survey was completed as an analysis of the approved and paid projects on the measure and interview. Th e support enables the participating businesses to reduce debts; it shows, however, a need of the simplifi cation and shortening of the administration of request, especially by small enterprises.

The collaboration that has led to the publication of this book can be traced back to April 2013, when the Research Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics (VÚEPP) in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, approached the Research Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI) in Budapest, Hungary, with a view to establishing a programme of bilateral cooperation. The approach was very positively received by AKI, and the idea rapidly developed into a plan for a series of trilateral cooperation activities that also included the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information (IAEI) in Praha, Czech Republic. Representatives of the three institutes met in Budapest at the end of May, 2013 and agreed to work together to enhance mutual research collaboration in the field of agricultural economics, share information and discuss issues related to agricultural economics in the three countries, and establish a coordination group composed by members of the three research institutes. The cooperation was formalised through the signing, in December 2013, of a trilateral Agreement covering the period 2014-2016 covering the following topics: (a) publication of individual or common papers in the institutes' journals or other journals, and exchange of journals between institutes; (b) exchange of experience via trilateral meetings of specialists; (c) cooperation with other scientific entities and support for affiliation to international networks or construction of a specific network in the institutes' common field of research interest; (d) applications and participation in common international projects; and (e) participation at international meetings with common research/papers and cooperation in organisation of different international meetings. The three institutes agreed that this would be an excellent way to better disseminate, nationally and internationally, the results of their research work and to open new perspectives to future mutual cooperation. The centrepiece of the programme of cooperation was a trilateral research project entitled "The CAP Impact on the Effectiveness of Use of Agricultural Production Factors and the Economic Efficiency of Agricultural Production and Product Sectors in the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic and Hungary". The general objective of this project has been: research on rural areas and the agrifood sector by sectoral analysis, country comparisons, identification of positive and negative influences on the rural and agricultural economy, dissemination of research results, and proposals for future policies in the field. Initially intended to cover four topics (implementation of the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), agricultural land ownership and related issues, competitiveness and profitability of crop and animal production, and the efficiency of food industry production), further discussion led to eight topics of joint research being agreed. This book represents the tangible output of the trilateral research project. Each chapter in the book is the product of enthusiastic cooperation between the re...

Abstracts:The submitted paper analyses the development of food industry in the czech republic in 2000-2006, its position (in 2006) and development trends of main economic indicators compared to the development of manufacturing industry. in comparison with the dynamic development of czech manufacturing industry, key position of food industry has decreased. The monitored food sector has heterogeneous structure with regard to branches. in connection with these differences, development trends of separate branches are fluctuating but labour productivity of the food sector as a total has markedly accelerated.Key words: food industry, main economic indicators, receipts from sales of own products and services, number of employees, value added, labour productivity from value added, labour costs Klíčová slova: potravinářský průmysl, hlavní ekonomické ukazatele, tržby za prodej výrobků a služeb, počet zaměstnaných osob, přidaná hodnota, produktivita práce z přidané hodnoty, osobní náklady

Abstracts:The study is engaged in the problems of competitiveness and the performance of the czech food industry. Both these attributes are evaluated in the framework the domestic manufacturing sector and market, as well as from the point of view of the relations in foreign trade, that means in context with the European and world market. The study applies in the frame of methodology the economic model based on input-output analysis in cz conditions. in majority of assessed indicators, there were used databases from 2000-2008, i.e. the period before and after the accession to the EU. The outcome of the study is the evaluation of the situation in the macroeconomic environment that influences food sector and the use of input and output in this sector. The SWoT analysis shows, among other, the occasions that could improve the current stagnant or rather decreasing situation of competitiveness of the assessed sector. The study also indicated new directions of the further development in this area. The analysis of the food sector development demonstrated that the sector competitiveness is not in a critical situation. however, the sector competitiveness assessed by the rcA index and foreign trade is not going to be improved. The stagnation has come. As it follows from the SWoT analysis, the reason is that the opportunities of the sector are not fully utilised. Food producers are facing the basic problems in the output sphere mainly in the domestic market. Above all, it is necessary to strengthen marketing with regard to improving the czech products competitiveness.

Production of food and beverages is one of the Czech traditional branches of processing industry. The article tries to describe the model prediction on the sector structure development oriented on labour and personal costs in food industry sector up to 2013 and it is based on the continuous monitoring of these indicators in the period 2000−2005. Except regress analysis of time orders, there was used the method of exponential smoothing. With regard to certain antagonistic tendencies, i.e. the lasting fall of the number of workers in the monitored period but at the same time the growth of personal costs, there were projected separate predictions of these indicators up to 2013, aimed namely at the set of companies with 20 and more employees. The prediction of the selected data up to the year 2013 is based on the running results of the Research Plan of the Research Institute of Agricultural Economics (VÚZE). The probable development of the number of workers and personal costs in the individual branches of food industry is characterised.