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ship,theUpperSilesianMetropolitanUnionandtheKatowiceCityHall.Aselect-
edmethodoflinearsequencingofobjects,usedforthispurpose,wasataxono-
micmeasureofdevelopment,proposedbyZ.Hellwig.
Theprimaryresearchaimedtoevaluatetheperceivedinvestmentattractive-
nessoftheSilesianVoivodship.Theopinionsaboutthisissuewerecollected
amongagroupofexperts,businesspeople,academicsandrepresentativesof
publicadministrationauthorities.Thedirectresearchwasconductedusingan
onlinesurvey,anaudiencesurveyandanin-depthinterviewmethods.
TheresearchprojecthasitsreferencetotheassumptionsofEUPriority7.It
isparticularlyconnectedwithastrategicgoalwhichtheEuropeanCouncilestab-
lishedinMarch,2000inLisbon,i.e.thetransformationoftheEUintoamore
competitiveanddynamicknowledge-basedeconomy,abletomaintainasus-
tainableeconomicgrowth,createabiggernumberofbetterjobsandensureabetter
socialcoherenceaswellaswiththeStrategyEurope2020adoptedin2010.
Theresearchassumptionsarealsoclearlyconnectedwiththegoalsofthe
DevelopmentStrategyfortheSilesianVoivodshipfortheyearsof2000-2020.
Thisrefers,firstofall,totheeconomicdimension(buildingadiversifiedand
innovativeeconomy)andthesocialdimension(education,openness,identity,
competence).Theaimsoftheprojectsoverlap,inparticular,withthethirddirec-
tionofactions,i.e.improvementinaregion’sinvestmentattractiveness.This
mayleadtoamoremoderneconomy,thetransferoftechnologiesandthegrowth
ofcooperatingcompanies.Atthesametime,asaresultofsynergy,newjobs
willbecreatedandtheregion’scompetitivepositionwillbeimproved.
Theobjectivesoftheresearchdeterminethestructureofthebook.Itcon-
tainsanintroduction,fourchapters,aconclusionandanannex.Thefirstchapter
givesatheoreticalandmethodicalbackgroundandthefollowingthreechapters
areempirical.
ChapterOnepresentsthenotionofaregion’sinvestmentattractiveness,
comparedtotheregion’scompetitiveness.Thischapterpresentsmethodical
backgroundforevaluatingregion’sinvestmentattractiveness.Itdiscussesthe
approachadoptedinthisresearch,reviewsthestudiesoninvestmentattractive-
nessofregionsconductedsofar,describesthebasicsourcesofinformationused
intheresearch,theresearchprocessandtheresearchsample.Thischapteralso
dealswiththebasiclimitationsfacedwhenconductingtheresearchintothe
investmentattractivenessoftheSilesianVoivodship.
ChapterTwocontainstheresultsofamulti-dimensionalcomparativeanaly-
sisaimedatsequencingthePolishvoivodshipsintermsoftheirinvestmentat-
tractiveness.Theanalysiswascarriedoutusingthesyntheticmeasureofdevel-
opment,proposedbyZ.Hellwig.Thevoivodshipswerecomparedintencatego-
ries.Thecomparisonfocusedon:region’slevelofinternationalisation,situation
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