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Globalization is the major challenge the economies of all countries currently face. The process of globalization, however, does not exclude an economy of strong regional and local character. The regions and their development became subject to the rules of market economy and free competition. However, the mechanism of an open market has a lot of limitations which consequentially leads to occurrence of so-called market failure the manifestation of which are differences in regional development constituting grounds to allow for intervention of a country within the framework of regional policy. Special economic zones are a form of state interventionism in Poland. Development of clusters is one of the concepts the operation of SEZs in Poland is currently based on. The aim of this article is to present factors conditioning emergence and development of clusters in Polish SEZs. In the article, the theoretical issues connected with subject matter of a region, regional policy, clusters as well as emergence and functioning of special economic zones were discussed. In further section of the article a characterization of Polish economic zones was conducted and results of their functioning in the context of their impact on emergence and development of clusters were presented.
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The dynamic processes occurring in the global economy, resulting in a steadily decreasing significance of industry, require extensive action by public authorities. Both state and local governments are responsible for counteracting the effects of deindustrialisation. Structural changes are mainly caused by high land prices in cities, economy-wide fluctuations and replacement of such economic functions as the industrial production by the more vibrant branches of the economy, e.g. the residential housing or service sectors. Local self-governments are responsible for the economic development of communes. The range of instruments available to assist entrepreneurs is not very wide, while finding new investors in the midst of a profound global crisis requires energetic steps and numerous pro-investment incentives. Entrepreneurs, on the other hand, tend to choose locations which are the most attractive from the point of view of economic efficiency. They expect that local and regional authorities will provide preferential conditions for investment. Special economic zones, whose performance is the focus of the present paper, offer substantial benefits for communal income and help ensure job protection.
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The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the effects of the functioning of special economic zones (investment expenditures and newly created and maintained jobs) and public aid. Analyses were carried out at the end of 2011, based on data published in the reports of the Ministry of Economy: Information on the implementation of the law on special economic zones. The chief aim of the empirical research conducted in the first half of 2011 was to assess the extent of the implementation of the objectives of SEZ, the degree of compensation for the cost of public aid for SEZ, and to review opinions on the prospects of the zones. The study was conducted by means of a questionnaire among the representatives of 10 out of the 14 of thespecial economic zones. Until the end of 2011, the value of investments that businesses had incurred in all the (14) zones exceeded PLN 79.6 billion. The zones vary widely in terms of investment expenditure value and the number of provided jobs. Katowice Zone is the leader in both of these categories. The value of public aid granted up to the end of 2010 amounted to PLN 8.9 billion (11.1% of the capital expenditure incurred by businesses). Since 2002, this share has remained at a comparable level of 10.1-12.1%. The results of the authors’ own studies show that individual goals are not fully achieved. In the opinion of managers, the zones best meet the goal of increasing the number of created jobs.
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The paper carried out a study of models of modern trends in special economic zones in the context of national and global economy. Analyzed forms of regulation of regional economic development in the areas of industrial cooperation and the problem of creating an integrated system of the domestic market. We study the effectiveness of various forms of centralized and decentralized control regions.
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