Economic Geography and Regional Development
Dissertation topics related to broadly-defined economic geography and regional development based on various theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches as well as a focus on various geographic scales, from global developments to their regional and local manifestations. Please contact a prospective advisor to discuss a potential dissertation topic. Examples of possible broadly-defined dissertation topics include:
- Economic globalisation and global patterns of uneven development;
- The effects of foreign direct investment in host economies;
- Geographic shifts in a particular industry or service activity;
- The role of particular actors (capital, labour, state, etc.) in the changing geography of a particular economic activity.
- Shifting modes of strategic coupling, decoupling and recoupling within global production networks/global value chains
- Evolutionary dynamics of regional innovation systems and its drivers
- Sustainability transitions in Central European industrialized countries
Supervisors: Petr Pavlínek, Jiří Blažek, Viktor Květoň, Pavlína Netrdová
Research team: Economic Geography and Regional Development Center