The European Union Structural Funds and Regional Development. The Perspective of Small and Medium Enterprises in Eastern Poland

Lewandowska, Anna; Stopa, Mateusz; Humenny, Grzegorz

doi:10.1080/09654313.2014.970132

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“…Authors tend to focus on more problematic regions, particularly in the east of the country, e.g. Podkarpackie, Podlaskie and Lubelskie (Lewandowska et al, 2015); Silesia (Ślusarczyk and Herbuś, 2011); and Mazovia (Bański and Czapiewski, 2015). Similarly, research has concentrated on the evaluation of the entire state, where detailed regional characteristics are interpreted sparsely (e.g.…”

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The development of peripheral areas: The case of West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Kebza

2018

Moravian Geographical Reports

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The process of peripheralisation of outlying areas is discussed in this article using a case study of West Pomeranian (Zachodniopomorskie) Voivodeship in Poland. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between these peripheral areas and metropolitan core areas. Scalar and vector data on selected indicators in the years 2005 and 2015 for gminas (communes, territorial units NUTS 5) are presented. The values for both years were observed as well as the change between them. A composite indicator based on the calculated data was developed, and it served as the basis for categorisation of metropolitan, ‘semi-peripheral’ and peripheral areas, which were further defined on the basis of their intrinsic properties and location in the region. The development of such peripheral areas is assessed more generally in the conclusions.

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The development of peripheral areas: The case of West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Kebza

2018

Moravian Geographical Reports

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“…After the accession of Poland to the EU in 2004, regional policy changes have been introduced, due to the availability of much higher amounts of money spent for this purpose [21]. Access to EU structural funds has become an important factor in the economic development of Poland [20,23].…”

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“…The access to EU funds became an important determinant of the economic development of Poland after its EU accession in 2004 [20]. There have been several important studies reviewing the effectiveness of EU funds in different regions of Poland [21][22][23][24]. However, these studies do not put appropriate emphasis on the interrelation between the absorption of the EU funds and land cover or land use changes.…”

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The Impact of EU Grants Absorption on Land Cover Changes—The Case of Poland

2019

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The main goal of the paper is to verify the impact of the absorption of European Union (EU) grants on land cover changes in Polish municipalities in the years 2012–2018. The selection of the research area was justified by the fact that Poland is the largest and significantly spatially differentiated transition economy in Central-Eastern Europe, recognised as a substantial beneficiary of EU accession in 2004. The time range of analysis was set as the result of a comparison of data availability in Corine Land Cover (CLC) and Statistics Poland. The CLC dataset referring to land cover and land use changes between 2012 and 2018 was used. The focus on modifications taking place within one of the main land cover groups at level 3 of detail was applied in this research. These changes were analysed as percentages referring to the area of the municipality and to the total area of changes in the investigated period. Two categories of EU grants were considered: total and infrastructural (granted under EU Operational Programme “Infrastructure and Environment”). Moreover, some control economic, social, demographic, institutional, infrastructural, and environmental variables were applied to better explain land cover changes. Moran’s local statistic was employed to detect spatial hot-spots of EU grants absorption, as well as hot-spots of land cover changes. Then, a collection of various variables related to determinants of land cover changes was set. Economic factors, including EU grants absorption, as well as factors related to accessibility, agrarian structure, demography, environment, and spatial planning were investigated. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was employed to convert the set of all considered variables into a set of few uncorrelated predictors. Finally, Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) was applied to describe the spatially varied impact of investigated determinants, including EU grants, represented by estimated principal components on land cover changes.

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“…Regional development can be defined as a steady increase in the standard of living and the economic potential of a large territorial unit (Lewandowska, Stopa, & Humenny, 2015;Marynych, 2017). According to this approach, regional development can be considered in terms of quantitative and qualitative changes.…”

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The Innovation Process in Local Development – The Material, Institutional, and Intellectual Infrastructure Shaping and Shaped by Innovation

Gorzelany-Dziadkowiec

Gorzelany

Stauskis

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Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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The purpose of the article is to define the material, institutional, and intellectual infrastructure of a region and identify the innovative processes that determine its creation. Our main research hypothesis is that the processes that influence the creation of a region's infrastructure determine a region's competitiveness as well. To verify these premises, we conducted a study among the residents and employees of a municipality. The research employed deductive and inductive methods and a qualitative analysis was performed. Pearson's linear correlation coefficient and factor analysis (inference based on the modal and median values) were used in the study. The research verified the hypothesis that innovative processes influence the creation of a region's infrastructure and that innovative processes in the studied region exhibit low dynamics, which is caused by financial and psychosocial barriers. The important role of social leaders in municipalities was identified as well, above all as regards building civic society and social activity. The added value of the article is threefold: the developed model of infrastructure construction in the material, institutional, and intellectual dimensions of a region; recommendations for the investigated municipality; and a structured questionnaire that, together with the model, can be used for research in municipalities. Keywords: regional development, regional competitiveness, material infrastructure, institutional infrastructure, intellectual infrastructure, entrepreneurship behavior, municipal management, model of infrastructure construction. JEL Classification: R50, O31.

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The European Union Structural Funds and Regional Development. The Perspective of Small and Medium Enterprises in Eastern Poland

Cited by 22 publications

References 18 publications

The development of peripheral areas: The case of West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

The development of peripheral areas: The case of West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

The Impact of EU Grants Absorption on Land Cover Changes—The Case of Poland

The Innovation Process in Local Development – The Material, Institutional, and Intellectual Infrastructure Shaping and Shaped by Innovation

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