Potential of the Czech business environment assumes the effects of foreign direct investment

Abstract

The localisation of foreign capital affecting both the immediate and future situation of the host locality in a number of ways. The positive effects of the location of FDI are welcomed all over the world, and their emergence is supported by the granting of investment incentives. The question is how to correctly measure these effects, but also the potential of specifi c areas to accept them. The aim of this contribution is to determine the size of the technology gap between FDI supported by investment incentives and the business environments in a group of six regions of the Czech Republic as well as to determine the absorption capacity of the technology transfer of these regions. Based on shift-share analyses, an indicator quantifying the size of the technology gap at the regional level of NUTS 3 has been constructed. This indicator has been supplemented by an indicator of technology transfer intensity. The benchmarking method illustrates the absorption capacity of the Czech business environment in an interregional comparison refl ecting the strong and weak sides of the Czech regions in terms of absorbing the benefi ts of locating multinational corporations in their territories. The calculations and analyses have proved the leading position of the Plzeň Region, which takes advantage of its geographical position as well as its historical industrial tradition. At the same time, the high absorption capacity of the Hradec Králové Region, a region with a high potential for intensive growth, has been identifi ed. On the other hand, the Karlovy Vary Region has been an outsider in the examined set of regions. In the long run, this region has not been and will not be able to attract at least a satisfactory level of foreign presence from which the region could positively benefi t and start its economic growth.

Enterprise ownership patterns in the least developed districts of Slovakia

“…Characteristic findings include a positive linkage between FDIs and domestic entrepreneurship (Nxazonke & van Wyk, 2020). Foreign-owned companies are generally considered to be holders of know-how, technology, new management methods and skills, initiators of innovation activities, strategic employers, and exporters (Kotíková, 2019). Typically, foreign owners are driven by agglomeration economies, as was found by Hecht (2017) in the German investors' case in the Czech Republic.…”

Přináší regionu větší kapitálová vybavenost práce vyšší mzdu? Případ českých regionů

“…Např. P. Hlaváček (2017) mapuje regionální rozdíly PZI pomocí regionálního potenciálu vyjádřeného prostřednictvím vybraných socioekonomických ukazatelů; S. Kotíková (2019) kvantifikuje technologickou mezeru českých NUTS 3 a srovnává je z hlediska absorpce výhod nadnárodních společností na území krajů ČR; nižší náklady na pracovníka v ČR (kromě jiných) označuje V. Linhartová a D. Vávrová (2018) za významný lokalizační faktor pro potenciální zahraniční investory; zatímco P. Zdražil (2015) zkoumá naopak vliv PZI na atraktivnost regionu a prokazuje, že PZI ji determinují, ale pouze v oblasti podnikatelské báze, potenciální spotřeby, zaměstnanosti z hlediska odpracovaných hodin a migrace; P. Zdražil spolu s J. Mallickem (2018) naznačují, že regionální rozdíly v příjmech lze snížit vyrovnaným rozdělením investic včetně PZI a rovnoměrným rozvojem kapitálu a u českých krajů kvantifikují míru jejich konvergence podmíněnou právě úrovní investic včetně PZI a lidského kapitálu v regionech.…”