Evaluation of Entrepreneurs with a Focus on Operational Programme Enterprise and Innovation (OPEI). Results of a Questionnaire Survey

The article is focused on the support of subjects from Operational Programme Enterprise and Innovation. The aim of the article is to analyse subjects applying for the financial support under the OPEI from the perspective of their legal form, number of employees and other indicators. The following hy...

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Published in:Economics & sociology 2016-01, Vol.9 (4), p.272-288
Main Authors: Wokoun, René, Kolařík, Petr, Kolaříková, Jana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Competitive advantage
Economic conditions
Economic growth
Economic reform
Employment
Entrepreneurial finance
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
Hypotheses
Innovations
Questionnaires
R&D
Regions
Research & development
Small & medium sized enterprises-SME
Subsidies
Unemployment
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Summary:The article is focused on the support of subjects from Operational Programme Enterprise and Innovation. The aim of the article is to analyse subjects applying for the financial support under the OPEI from the perspective of their legal form, number of employees and other indicators. The following hypothesis will be examined: 1. Financial support from OPEI is not not distributed evenly among the individual regions (counties) - the highest number of projects (number of projects and the height of subsidy) was approved in the place of implementation in a structurally affected regions (hereinafter ISAR). In these regions, most projects, in terms of their number and the height of the subsidy, are realized in the "group" of economically weak regions due to the fact that they occupy the greatest territory of the ISAR - about 47% (14% of the Czech Republic Area). 2. There is a correlation between the amount of the subsidy from the OPEI and the unemployment rate in supported regions. 3. Subsidies contribute to development of entrepreneurship, i.e. the number of applicants who would not realize their project without the structural funds prevails. We investigate the relationship among subsidy of the OPEI and unemployment rate by applying the ecometric approach, concretely panel regression estimates with Fixed Effects. The research itself was based mostly on analysing data from various databases (Albertina, CzechInvest, CSU, MagnusWeb) and based on the questionnaire survey.
ISSN:2071-789X
2306-3459
DOI:10.14254/2071-789X.2016/9-4/17