The aim of this paper is to defi ne factors infl uencing formation and development of clusters in the Czech Republic and Poland. The authors describe the existing cluster-based policies and the stages of a cluster development in these countries. On the basis of the case studies of clusters such...

The transformation of the Czech banking sector was launched on the principles adopted even before November 1989, when the monobank structure of Czech banking was abolished on January 1st, 1990. The former State Bank of Czechoslovakia, which fulfilled the functions of both monetary policy and...

This paper deals with the spatial relationship between national and European regional policies. Spatial coherence of these two types of policies in two CEE countries – in the Czech Republic and Slovakia – is discussed. Our findings point at a higher spatial coherence of national and European...