Magistro darbe yra vertinama ES fondų ir valstybės teikiamos paramos smulkioms ir vidutinėms įmonėms įtaka šalies ekonominei plėtrai. Identifikuoti ES fondų ir valstybės teikiamos paramos prioritetai. Atlikta suteiktos paramos smulkioms ir vidutinėms įmonėms analizė, nustatyti paramos teikimo sistemos privalumai ir trūkumai. Patvirtinama autorės suformuluota mokslinio tyrimo hipotezė, kad ES fondų ir valstybės teikiama parama smulkioms ir vidutinėms įmonėms neskatina konvergencijos įgyvendinimo tarp atskirų šalies regionų. Pateikti ES fondų ir valstybės institucijų teikiamos paramos sistemos tobulinimo instrumentai. / The present Master‘s degree thesis considers the influence of the support rendered by the EU funds and the state to small and middle-sized companies on the economic development of the country. It also identifies the fields given priority to when rendering the support of the EU funds and the state. Herein, performed is the analysis of the support rendered to small and middle-sized companies; determined are the advantages and disadvantages of the support system. The thesis does prove the scientific research hypothesis formulated by the author hereof that the support rendered by the EU funds and the state to small and middle-sized companies does not contribute to the convergence of separate regions of the country. It also provides the instruments for improvement of the system of the support rendered by the EU funds and state institutions.

The diploma work deals with development of clusters in South Bohemia. The aim of the work is the analysies of present situation of production creation of clusters in South Bohemia, evaluation of possibilities for the development and inception of new clusters and comparison with the situation in abroad. In the first part of the work the conception of clusters, types and kinds of clusters, support programs etc are characterized . The second part is describes South Bohemia, scientific institutions, supporting institutions and clusters whitch are in a phase of preparation and clusters which already exist. In this part I enquired into pertinence of conditions for the creation of clusters in South Bohemia according to the number of employees and according to the share of added value. Next I asked assistants from small and middle-sized companies about their awareness about clusters and about their possible cooperation in this cluster. South Bohemia has significant branches which have high potential for creating clusters. It results from the coefficient of the localization. These are branches of Fishing and fish farming, Production and main of electricity, gas and water and Agriculture, forestry and hunting. South Bohemia has great presumtions for development of wood industry, paper industry, fishing and agriculture. From the query I found out that small and middle-sized companies do not have much information about clusters. Small and middle-sized companies do not trust the cooperation. No of the correspondent companies wants to establish a cluster or to enter a cluster. South Bohemia has big potential for creation of clusters. In the region there are a lot of bussines institution (universities, research institutes) and many institutions, which should inprove the awareness about clusters (CzechInvest, Economic Chamber, South Bohemian Agency for Support of Innovative Enterprising). These institutions organize conferences, workshops, presentations and expositions. They also help in start of the business, in development, in establishment of clusters and they inform about possible cooperation.

In my dissertation I made a marketing research of group of small and middle sized companies. The research deals with common marketing instruments in running the small and middle sized companies (mainly basic marketing mix - 4P). The results of my own marketing research are compared with results of marketing research which was made in 2004 and 2005 by Faculty of Economics and Administration of Masaryk University of Brno.

The main objective of this thesis is to monitor and analyse the HR management currently applied in the Japanese small and medium-sized companies located in the Czech Republic. The thesis clarifies to the reader how these companies approach the HR management and compares their approaches with the ones from the best practices. Among others, the discussed areas further include standardised interviews and long-term experience of the Japanese small and medium-sized enterprises in the Czech Republic. In general, the thesis not only provides a comprehensive view of HR management in small and medium-sized enterprises, but it also focuses on the characteristics of the HR management in the selected Japanese small and medium-sized companies. The hypothesis of the thesis is that these companies have adapted their HR management to the conditions on the Czech market and they have adjusted to the local business environment. The hypothesis was proven based on the available documents and conducted interviews.

Small and medium-sized companies in Italy --the backbone of the economy or an obsolete production system? Analyse and prediction of the future development. This thesis is focused on the problems of small and medium-sized companies in Italy in the actual context of globalization and strong competion, especially in the traditional italian industries. Moreover, the political situation in the country is quite unstable and together with the omnipresent bureaucracy the everyday life is more difficult for the companies. In the first part I introduce the history backgrounds of the small and middle-sized companies and also the italian phenomenon "distretti industriali" -- indutrial districts. I also dedicated the first chapter to the specific features of family companies. In the second part the main social-economic problems of the country are described as well as some possible strategies in the context of the state export-focused programmes coordinated on the EU level. With the help of some companies that agreed to answer my questionary I tried to analyse the situation in state assistance to these companies In the last part, the reactions and answers of the companies are summed-up.