The competitiveness of EU regions This paper results from the project financed by the Grant Agency of the Czech … competitiveness. The concept of competitiveness is relatively new in the economics and the economic geography. In fact, there are no … competitiveness as a success in selling products or services on open markets. The macro-economic view is much more variable. It is …

factors that act differently depending on the region. The economic environment is characterized by non-linear turbulent … changes and the regions face everyday challenges. Each region has its own competitive advantages that can be used for regional …

This paper postulates that a country's competitiveness is sticky, i.e. it does not react immediately to changes in … between policy actions and their impact on competitiveness ("pipeline effect"). Second, visible reactions of firms to changes … visible changes in competitiveness, and given that these actions again need time to take effect, reactions are systematically …

only for academic founders inside as well as outside the region. In contrast, the start-up activity of non …-academic founders coming from inside or outside the region cannot be explained with knowledge intensity of the region. Our empirical …