Research Plan

1. Theoretical and methodological investigations

1. International results for the regional and urban competitiveness
2. Methodology of measuring the competitiveness

2. Analysis of the European regional competitiveness

3. Aspects of the competitiveness of the regions in regional documents, regional political aims in selected European regions
4. Factors of the European urban hierarchy, the characteristics of city competition
5. Central-Eastern European regional competitiveness
6. Structural characteristics and competitive factors of Hungary’s neighbouring regions.

3. The effects of regional and sector development on competitiveness

7. The regional competitiveness of industry
8. The situation of the regional competitiveness of the agriculture
9. The effects of the environmental elements to the regional competitiveness
10. The contents of the regional development programmes by comparing the competitiveness

4. Regional innovation potential

11. Hungarian regional innovation potential
12. The innovation capacity and the development concepts of the leading Hungarian cities

5. The competitiveness of the Hungarian urban network

13. The general characteristics of the Hungarian urban network
14. The Hungarian urban network’s competitiveness
15. The position of the Hungarian urban network in the European and in the Central-European space

6. The role of the infrastructure and services in the competitiveness

16. The role of the infrastructure in regional competitiveness
17. Collecting and processing data describing regional infrastructure
18. The differences between regional and urban levels of infrastructure and services

7. Regional institutional system

19. The role of the regional administration in regional competitiveness
20. The tasks of the urban governments to increase the competitive potential

8. Summarising the investigations, determining the strategic tasks