Course Details

Regional Policy

Academic Year 2025/26

NVB047 course is part of 2 study plans

​ NPC-SIE Summer Semester 1st year

​ NPC-MI Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Lucie Vaňková, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Structural Economics and Management

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295760

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to regional economy. Spatial economic systems. Theoretical approaches to their explanation.
  • 2. Localization theories – agriculture (von Thünen), industry (Schäffle, Fischer, Weber).
  • 3. Localization theories of the 1920s and 1950s.
  • 4. Agglomeration effects, spatial concentration or dispersion.
  • 5. Regions and regionalization, homogeneous and heterogeneous regions.
  • 6. Regional dimensions of the market of factors of production – job market, immovable property market.
  • 7. Regional development and growth theories – theory of polarized development, export base theory etc.
  • 8. Economic level of regions – main influencing factors.
  • 9. Evaluation of the economic level – microeconomic and macroeconomic, quantitative and qualitative indicators.
  • 10. Regional policy – inter-regional differences, regional policy conception according to the main economic schools.
  • 11. Regional policy in the Czech Republic – principles, tools, regions with concentrated support from the state.
  • 12. Regional policy of the Czech Republic in the period 2014–2020.
  • 13. Regional development strategy of the Czech Republic and other regional policy documents of the Czech Republic.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Program of teaching, instruction and guidance, requirements for award a credit. SWOT analysis. Case Study - assignment of an individual project.
  • 2. Case Study – SWOT analysis, field Position of the region and geographical conditions, Socio-economic conditions, Transport, Infrastructure and Landscape and environment.
  • 3. Case Study - public presentation of SWOT analysis by each group.
  • 4. Case Study - comparison of selected region with national indicators - GDP, unemployment, building production etc.
  • 5. Case Study - Regional development plan of the region.
  • 6. Case Study – EU grants and subsidies for the region. Completion and correction.
  • 7. A public presentation of the previous parts by each groups. A comprehensive summary of the case study. Submission of case study in both print and electronic versions.