Research in creative industries is mostly focused on urban and metropolitan areas.
However, various authors have approached the creative industries from a regional, rural, or …

Selecting medical equipment is a complex multidisciplinary task requiring mathematical
tools, considering associated uncertainties. This paper offers an in-depth study of multiple …

The authors examine the patterns and determinants of spatial distribution of selected
knowledge-intensive business services in Czechia, a small post-communist country whose …

During the period of transition after the fall of communism in the late 1980s, cities in the
Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) encountered a range of processes that …

The paper analyses spatial and locational aspects of cultural and creative industries (CCI)
taking into consideration the internal heterogeneity of this group of activities. Emphasis is put …

The socioeconomic performance of industrial small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs) in
comparison to that of non-industrial SMSTs, is subject to evaluation in this paper, to see if …

We compare intra-urban localization patterns of advertising and IT companies in three large
Czech cities. The main aim of our analysis is an empirically-based contribution to the …

The business sector is directly linked to many other social and economic indicators of the
settlement, region and the state. Especially the retail trade is influenced by the consumption …

The creative economy as an alternative pathway for industrial decline was first introduced
into practice in metropolitan regions of the Global North. Since then, it has gradually spread …

We aimed to explain the spatial distribution of information and communication technology
(ICT) firms in the city of Ostrava as an example of a medium-sized, shrinking, polycentric …