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The European Union Structural Funds and Regional Development. The Perspective of Small and Medium Enterprises in Eastern Poland

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  • Anna Lewandowska
  • Mateusz Stopa
  • Grzegorz Humenny

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The article concentrates on the role of European Union (EU) structural funds in the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The analysis presented in this paper is based on the results of computer-assisted telephone interviews conducted with 394 representatives of enterprises localized in three Polish Voivodships: the Podkarpackie, the Lubelskie and the Podlaskie. The entire EU structural funds are based on the assumption that by additionally financing the development of SMEs, they influence regional development indirectly. Even though EU structural funds are not the only factor influencing economic growth and the creation of Gross Domestic Product, they affect the development potential of enterprises indirectly. However, from the perspective of the representatives of researched SMEs, EU structural funds are not so significant for commitment to investment. Actually, for SMEs in Eastern Poland, they have no effect on future investment plans. This bottom-up perspective researched in one of the poorest areas of the EU puts the assumption of the positive relation between the EU structural funds and regional development into doubt .

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  • Anna Lewandowska & Mateusz Stopa & Grzegorz Humenny, 2015. "The European Union Structural Funds and Regional Development. The Perspective of Small and Medium Enterprises in Eastern Poland," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(4), pages 785-797, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:23:y:2015:i:4:p:785-797
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2014.970132
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    1. Pinkovetskaia Iuliia & Slepova Vladislava, 2018. "Estimation of Fixed Capital Investment in SMEs: the Existing Differentiation in the Russian Federation," Business Systems Research, Sciendo, vol. 9(1), pages 65-78, March.
    2. Massimo FLORIO & Aleksandra PARTEKA & Emanuela SIRTORI, 2016. "The Role of EU Policy in Supporting Technological Innovation in SMEs - a Bayesian Network Analysis of Firm-Level Data from Poland," Departmental Working Papers 2016-13, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano.
    3. Lukasz Pietak, 2021. "Structural Funds and Convergence in Poland," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 236(1), pages 3-37, March.
    4. D'Anghela, Mariapia & Murmura, Federica, 2020. "The Impacts of EU Support Programs on SMEs: A Literature Review," Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference (2020), Virtual Conference, in: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference, Virtual Conference, 10-12 September 2020, pages 353-364, IRENET - Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy, Zagreb.

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