Course Details

Regional economy and policy

Academic Year 2025/26

NVA073 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-ARS / ARP Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jana Korytárová, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Structural Economics and Management

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/296010

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 2007 – 2013, 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. S.W.O.T. analysis. Case Study SWOT analysis - field Position of the region and geographical conditions and the assignment of an individual project for this field.
  • 2.Case Study SWOT analysis - field Socio-economic conditions and the assignment of an individual project for this field. Public presentation of the first part of analysis by each group.
  • 3.Case Study SWOT analysis - field Transport and the assignment of an individual project for this field. Public presentation of the second part of analysis by each group.
  • 4.Case Study SWOT analysis - field Infrastructure and the assignment of an individual project for this field. Public presentation of the third part of analysis by each group.
  • 5.Case Study SWOT analysis - field Landscape and environment and the assignment of an individual project for this field. Public presentation of the fourth part of analysis by each group.
  • 6.Case Study SWOT analysis – completion, correction. Public presentation of the fifth part of analysis by each group.
  • 7.A comprehensive summary of the case study. Submission of complex swot analysis in both print and electronic versions. Credit.