Dans un contexte de mise en place des pôles de compétitivité et des dernières lois sur la décentralisation (2004 et 2013), les Régions ont vu leurs compétences renforcées en matière de développement économique et d’innovation, et se sont impliquées plus massivement dans la conduite de politiques scientifiques et technologiques (S&T). Ainsi, ce travail a pour but d’interroger l’efficacité des politiques S&T régionales. En effet, la légitimé de l’échelon régional dans la politique de S&T peut être remise en question dès lors que la production et l’exploitation de la technologie tendent à être de plus en plus globalisées. Cette légitimité régionale peut être abordée sous l’angle des Systèmes Régionaux d’Innovation (SRI). En considérant l’échelon régional comme prégnant, notamment au niveau des politiques économiques et technologiques, les SRI permettent d’analyser les liens entre science, industrie et gouvernance au niveau local. Face à ces enjeux, la Région Aquitaine, qui a augmenté son budget consacré à sa politique de S&T de manière considérable depuis ces dix dernières années, se pose des questions. Elle est aujourd’hui la Région française dont le budget S&T par habitant est le plus élevé. C’est pourquoi celle-ci veut savoir si sa politique de S&T est efficace. Cet effort conséquent en termes de S&T, est-il nécessaire/justifié ? Quelle est la cohérence de la politique régionale au cours du temps ? Ces questions sont appréhendées en utilisant les outils de l’évaluation. Un travail de formalisation des objectifs poursuivis et des moyens mis en oeuvre par la Région est mené, tout en développant une approche comparative par rapport à d’autres expériences régionales en France. / In the context of setting up clusters and the latest laws on decentralization (2004 and 2013), the regions saw their skills for economic development and innovation increased. That’s why they are more involved in the conduct of science and technology policies. Thus, this study aims to examine the effectiveness of science and technology policies (S&T) at the regional level. Indeed, the legitimacy of this level in the S&T policy could be challenged since the production of technology tend to be more and more globalized. Moreover, this regional legitimacy can be approached from the perspective of regional innovation systems (RIS), which constitute a theoretical framework suitable for the treatment of this issue. Considering the importance of regional level, especially in economic and technological policies, SRI is a framework which aims to analyze the links between science, industry and local governance. Faced to these challenges, the Aquitaine Region asks itself questions. Indeed, it has increased its S&T budget since the last ten years and today is the French region with the highest S&T budget per capita. Now the Aquitaine Region wants to know how effective its S&T policy is. Is this effort in terms of S&T necessary or justified? What is the consistency of regional policy over time? What is the result of such a policy a socio-economic point of view? These issues will be studied using of evaluation’s tools. Furthermore, we offer to synthetize the objectives of S&T and the means used by the Region and we develop a comparative approach to other regional experiences on differents dimensions of innovation.

Thesis deals with the issues of financing and operation of non-profit organisations focusing on the most widespread form - i.e. on civic associations. The theoretical part of the thesis includes the definition of non-profit sector, civic associations, including the characteristics of their legislation. Practical part discuss the question of funding in the specific context of the civic association Elim, Christian society for evangelism and deaneries in Písek in the monitored years 2004 - 2008. There are examples of sources of funding the civic association Elim Písek, which is a subsidy from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, the Regional Office of South Bohemian Region and grants from European Union funds.

The target of the thesis is to describe present higher education system in Slovakia and the way of breakdown of subsidies for public universities and higher schools with focus on comparison with the Czech Republic. First part is about historical development and present state of higher education in Slovakia. Second part is focusing on grants for carrying out accredited study programs and the last part is analysis of study field coefficient and coefficient of employability of graduates. According to used methods I found out that different ways how to evaluate performance of higher schools and universities leads to different results, though they are using the same characteristics.

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This paper is divided into four chapters. Chapter one presents an introduction and overview of the nature of the problem, its significance and implication for public policy, and a presentation of the research design and methodology. Chapter two reviews the historical and legal background of bilingual education policy. Chapter three presents a literature review of bilingual education policy making, and examines the impacts and effects of federal aid in practice. Chapter four provides a summary of survey findings and recommendations for reform of the funding criteria for Title VII ESEA bilingual education grants.

Modellen för röstmaximerande politiska partier i ett proportionerligt valsystem presenterad av Lindbeck och Weibull (1987) respektive Dixit och Londregan (1996) används för att testa svenska regeringens taktiska användning av de allmänna statsbidragen till kommunerna under åren 2007–2010. Resultaten tyder på att statsbidragen använts taktiskt vilket korroborerar teorin. Liknande analys för åren 2015–2018 kunde inte replikera resultaten. Svensk valundersökning används för att identifiera väljarnas ideologiska preferens för regeringen under tiden för riksdagsvalet 2006 varefter mätmodellen presenterad av Johansson (2003) och Dahlberg och Johansson (2002) används för att skatta poängen mot den latenta faktorn "ideologisk bias". Dessa poäng delas upp efter valkrets och används för att skatta den ideologiska biasens täthetsfördelning i respektive valkrets. Valresultatet används för att identifiera indifferenspunkterna där väljarna i respektive valkrets är indifferenta mellan båda politiska blocken. Täthetsfunktionerna utvärderas vid dessa punkter varefter betydelsen av tätheterna som determinant för mängden allmänna statsbidrag en kommun erhåller testas genom linjär regression. / A version of the model for voter share maximizing political parties in a proportional electoral system developed by Lindbeck and Weibull (1987) and Dixit and Londregan (1996) respectively is presented. This model is used to test if there is evidence for the tactical use of intergovernmental grants from the central incumbent government to the local governments at the municipal level during the first term of office 2007-2010 of the conservative Reinfeldt government in Sweden. The results show that such tactical use did occur, and which corroborates the theoretical framework for competing parties. Similar results were obtained for the periods 2011-2014 (conservative government) and 2015-2018 (socialist government). Data from the Swedish election studies are used to identify the voter’s ideological preferences for the incumbent central government during the time of the 2006 general election to the Swedish parliament. The theory behind the model presented by Johansson (2003) and Dahlberg and Johansson (2002) respectively was the guideline to estimate the factor scores against the latent factor “ideological bias”. The Gaussian kernel density function is used to estimate the ideological bias in each constituency: The actual election results are used to approximate the indifference cutpoint where the voters are indifferent between both political alternatives. The probability distribution functions were evaluated at these cutpoints after which the importance of these densities for the amount of intergovernmental grants a municipality receives is tested using linear regression.

The work deals with a budgeting of non-profit-making organizations in Czech Republic. The teoretical part specifies particular types of activities and the recommendation for making and utilization of a budget. The analytical part applies the findings and follows them up at a particular non-profit-making organization. The conclusion of the work points to detected deficiencies and proposes measures for the solving.

The aim of my thesis, which is called „Business project in the area of renewable energy resources“, is to analyze business opportunities in the area of renewable energy resources, which have been highly actual and discussed recently, whether in term of benefit for environment or in connection with international problem of shortness in energy resources. Result of this thesis is, on the basis of the analysis, to define recommendations in the form of optimal proposal for realization. The thesis is engaged in description of current state in the area of the renewable energy resources, their utilization in practice and consequential proposals for realization including project financial plan. The thesis is also engaged in possibilities of state budget and EU grants use.

The goal of the submitted thesis is the utilization of EU funds as a development of a local infrastructure, concretely construction of the new bicycle lane. First part of the thesis revers to a basic conception regional policy, operation programmes and describe process of steps in the project. In the next parts there are description of a starting transportation position in the village, setting up a particular project and valuation the project as a whole.

The subject of the dissertation is a financial analysis of an enterprise and following overall assessment of financial condition of the company during 2006 - 2009. The design part of the dissertation is focused on development and streamlining of enterprise management and individual proposals are concentrated mainly on optimization of reserves and investment in the area of production technologies.