Comparison of business support by the European structural and investment funds in the Czech republic in the programming periods 2007 - 2013 and 2014 - 2020

Abstract

This paper deals with the area of business support in the form of projects co-financed by European Structural and Investment Funds in the Czech Republic in the Programming Period 2014 – 2020 compared to support in the Programming Period 2007 – 2013. Business has been supported in both programming periods within more operational programmes, and the paper focuses on support through the following operational programmes: Enterprise and Innovation within the first programming period and Enterprise and Innovation for Competitiveness within the second one. Entrepreneurial entities received a significant source of funding for their development activities through these funds. The paper aims to compare the scope and ways of providing support through both operational programmes and to evaluate this support.