REGIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT EVALUATION: CASE OF MORAVIAN-SILESIAN REGION

The main goal of the article is to present the proposal for a system of indicators of the business environment vitality that would be useful for the evaluation of the effectiveness of regional policies in the area of business support. These results are based on field survey study between 215 entrepreneurs in the Moravian-Silesian region in 2015. According to these findings, the quality of the business environment is directly connected with the local government, when an entrepreneur is in daily contact with them. In the area of fundamental barriers at the start of business we found out that the most frequently mentioned barrier was the lack of finance, followed by lack of information or qualified staff in the beginning. The business environment in all districts in the region was rated rather positively, leaded by district of Bruntal and Novy Jicin as a last. In area of satisfaction with the services of the municipality we achieved similar results as in the case of the evaluation of the business environment.