Final report of the project on CSF evaluation 4/04 barriers to competitiveness growth in the Czech Republic: appendices

The aim of the study is to identify and to evaluate the barriers of the growth of competitiveness in the Czech Republic, with a special regard to the ability to create, disseminate and utilize knowledgfe, and to outline specific measures that will eliminate or reduce the identified barriers

Final report of the project on CSF evaluation 4/04 barriers to competitiveness growth in the Czech Republic

The aim of the study is to identify and to evaluate the barriers of the growth of competitiveness in the Czech Republic, with a special regard to the ability to create, disseminate and utilize knowledgfe, and to outline specific measures that will eliminate or reduce the identified barriers

Závěrečná zpráva projektu evaluace RPS 4/04 bariéry růstu konkurenceschopnosti České republiky

The aim of the study is to identify and to evaluate the barriers of the growth of competitiveness in the Czech Republic, with a special regard to the ability to create, disseminate and utilize knowledgfe, and to outline specific measures that will eliminate or reduce the identified barriers

Planning for the future of derelict farm premises: from abandonment to regeneration.

Re-using and regenerating derelict and abandoned areas constitutes an important element in sustainable land use policy and planning. This paper explores the phenomenon of derelict farm premises in South Bohemia, the Czech Republic. It analyses the origin and extent of this phenomenon as well as land use targets applied to such sites by planning documents. A large number of derelict farm premises have emerged on former collectivized lands. According to local territorial zoning plans, agricultural use prevails as the reuse designation for these sites. However, they are still significantly less frequently planned to be used in agriculture than areas currently in active agricultural use and are more frequently planned to be converted into housing, public buildings, or industrial activities. Overall, strategies for the planned utilization of derelict premises are found to be contingent on temporal and spatial factors. While many long-term derelict premises are planned to be converted into non-agricultural use, newly emerged ones are more likely to retain the agricultural designation. In terms of spatial diversity, rural municipalities of the inner peripheries emphasize housing development rather than industrial activity. Further, by analysing successful regeneration projects accomplished for abandoned premises since 2004, it is found that they generally adhere to the requirements of territorial zoning plans

Actor networks and the construction of applicable knowledge: the case of the Timbre Brownfield Prioritization Tool

This article deals with experiences acquired during the process of developing the Timbre Brownfield Prioritization Tool (TBPT). Developing a decision support tool that takes into account the expectations and experiences of its potential users is similar to creating applicable knowledge by the joint action of scientists and heterogeneous actors. Actor network theory is used to explore the construction of this form of applicable knowledge as a process of actor network creation. Following the French sociologist Callon, networks are seen to be initiated and carried out by a group of scientists (tool developers) via four moments of translation, called problematization, interessement, enrolment and mobilization. Each step in the construction of the TBPT—from the initial research question to the final model—can be linked in retrospect to changing configurations of actor networks. Based on the experiences of the tool developers in the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany and Romania, we illustrate how these configurations varied across space and time. This contribution emphasizes the ability to correlate gains in knowledge with the more visible changes in the scope of actor networks in order to highlight achievements but also limitations in acquiring applicable knowledge