All Stories

  1. Geopolitical decoupling and global production networks: the case of Ukrainian industries after the 2014 Crimean annexation

    Article • Journal of Economic Geography, October 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  2. The role of assets and variegated constellations of organizational- and system-level agency in regional transformation

    Article • European Planning Studies, January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  3. Value creation and capture in the 300 largest companies in Czechia: What role does position in global production networks play?

    Article • Geografie, January 2023, Czech Geographical Society

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  4. What drives the economic performance of suppliers in global value chains/global production networks – tier, ownership, size, specialization, or region?

    Article • Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  5. Value capture by companies of different ownership, tier, size, and distance to market: A cross‐sectoral analysis

    Article • Area, July 2022, Wiley

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  6. Towards an integrated framework of agency in regional development: the case of old industrial regions

    Article • Regional Studies, May 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  7. Global production networks and regional innovation systems: contrasting or complementary policy implications?

    Article • European Planning Studies, December 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Senior Research Scientist (PhD) Markus Steen, Dr Jiri Blazek

  8. The role of tier, ownership and size of companies in value creation and capture

    Article • European Planning Studies, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  9. Industrial policy and automotive development: a comparative study of Thailand and Czechia

    Article • Eurasian Geography and Economics, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  10. Geography, ownership and uneven trends in the economic performance of small banking centres in Europe during the financial crisis

    Article • European Urban and Regional Studies, June 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  11. The variegated role of proximities in acquisitions by domestic and international companies in different phases of economic cycles

    Article • Papers of the Regional Science Association, June 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  12. 1. What is Place-Based Policy?

    Article • Regional Studies Policy Impact Books, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  13. 2. What are the Benefits of Place-Based Policy?

    Article • Regional Studies Policy Impact Books, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  14. 3. Requirements and Challenges of Place-Based Policy

    Article • Regional Studies Policy Impact Books, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  15. 4. Outcomes of Place-Based Policy: What Works and What does not?

    Article • Regional Studies Policy Impact Books, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  16. 5. Conclusions: Questions Answered, Issues Remaining

    Article • Regional Studies Policy Impact Books, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  17. Executive Summary

    Article • Regional Studies Policy Impact Books, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  18. Key Recommendations

    Article • Regional Studies Policy Impact Books, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  19. Preamble

    Article • Regional Studies Policy Impact Books, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  20. Towards research impact: using place-based policy to develop new research methods for bridging the academic/policy divide

    Article • Regional Studies Regional Science, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  21. The dark side of regional industrial path development: towards a typology of trajectories of decline

    Article • European Planning Studies, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  22. The impacts of the global economic crisis and its aftermath on the banking centres of Europe

    Article • European Urban and Regional Studies, October 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  23. Entrance-exit dynamics of suppliers and the repercussions for reshaping the structure of GVCs/GPNs

    Article • European Planning Studies, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek, Dr Kaoru Natsuda, Jan Sykora

  24. The anatomy of difference: comprehending the evolutionary dynamics of economic and spatial structure in the Austrian and Czech economies

    Article • European Planning Studies, February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  25. The challenge of breaking the academia–business firewall in Czechia: comparing the role of differentiated knowledge bases in collaborative R&D projects

    Article • European Planning Studies, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  26. Is there a credit-gap in a periphery? The perception of this problem by small entrepreneurs

    Article • Journal of Rural Studies, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  27. Can emerging regional innovation strategies in less developed European regions bridge the main gaps in the innovation process?

    Article • Environment and Planning C Government and Policy, August 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  28. Emerging regional innovation strategies in Central Europe: institutions and regional leadership in generating strategic outcomes

    Article • European Urban and Regional Studies, November 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  29. Regional unemployment impacts of the global financial crisis in the new member states of the EU in Central and Eastern Europe

    Article • European Urban and Regional Studies, January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  30. Where Does the Knowledge for Knowledge-intensive Industries Come From? The Case of Biotech in Prague and ICT in Ostrava

    Article • European Planning Studies, July 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  31. The Biotechnology Industry in the Prague Metropolitan Region: A Cluster within a Fragmented Innovation System?

    Article • Environment and Planning C Government and Policy, October 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  32. Regional Analysis of Public Capital Expenditure: To Which Regions Is Public Capital Expenditure Channelled – to ‘Rich’ or to ‘Poor’ Ones?

    Article • Regional Studies, August 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  33. Types and Systems of Actors in Regional Development: Their Function and Regulatory Potential

    Article • European Spatial Research and Policy, January 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  34. Regional development of Prague, and application of the four-capital model to the issue of urban sprawl

    Article • European Environment, January 2008, Wiley

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  35. Ex-anteevaluation in the new member states: The case of the Czech Republic

    Article • Regional Studies, April 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jiri Blazek

  36. Changing local finances in the Czech Republic — half way over?

    Article • GeoJournal, March 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jiri Blazek