METHODOLOGY OF EVALUATION OF INNOVATIVE QUALITY OF BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AND ITS APPLICATION IN MORAVIA-SILESIA REGION

With regard to the transformation of centrally planned economy to market economy there have occurred great changes in the business environment under new conditions in the pre-accession period of the Czech Republic into the European Union. The business environment is very various, dynamic and complex. It is influenced by many factors, which can have positive or negative impacts on the environment. These factors can be included into 6 groups. There are business factors, labour factors, infrastructural factors, local factors, price factors and environmental factors. The paper deals with the evaluation of the innovative quality of business environment based on these factors. For this purpose a methodology of the evaluation it is worked out. It is applied to the evaluation of the innovative quality of business environment of the Moravian-Silesian Region and of other Czech regions in the pre-accession period of the Czech Republic into the European Union. Finally, changes in the business environment of the Moravian-Silesian Region after the accession to the European Union are described in this paper.