Acta academica karviniensia 2018, 18(2):58-69 | DOI: 10.25142/aak.2018.015

DISPARITIES IN THE SECTOR OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE NUTS3 REGIONS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Kamila Turečková, Jan Nevima
Silesian University, School of Business Administration, Univerzitní nám.1934/3, 733 40 Karvina

The present article is focused on the analysis of selected indicators that characterize the economic sector of information and communication technology at regional levels in the Czech Republic between years 1995 and 2015. The aim of this paper is to evaluate, by a specific index that is based on a combination of point method and economical-geographic methods, regional divergences in the area of the economic branch of information and communication technology and defines development and regional differences in the ICT branch at NUTS3 level of the regions of the Czech Republic. The quest is to find regions where information and communication technology is developing and to define an order (ranking) of regions that succeeded in developing the ICT sector. The analysis of the information and communication sector which is defined by NACE Rev.2., in section J, is based on empirical data from the Czech Statistical Office at NUTS3 regional level.

Keywords: the Czech Republic, information and communication technology, region, sectoral disparities
JEL classification: J20, L86, O14, R12

Received: April 24, 2018; Revised: May 25, 2018; Accepted: June 13, 2018; Published: June 30, 2018  Show citation

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