STRUCTURILE DE SPRIJINIRE A AFACERILOR ȘI DEZVOLTAREA REGIONALĂ. STUDIU DE CAZ - JUDEȚUL BIHOR

• Published in: REVISTA ECONOMIA CONTEMPORANĂ Vol. 3; no. 3; pp. 155 - 168
• Main Authors: Dodescu, Anca Otilia, Pop Cohut, Ioana Crina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: EDITURA INDEPENDENŢA ECONOMICĂ 2018; INDEPENDENTA ECONOMICA PUBLISHING
• Subjects: Economy; Business support structures; regional development; industrial clustering; Bihor County (Romania); agglomeration economies

In addition to ourprevious research regarding economic policies for regional growth and developmentsuitable for Romania the actual research aims to investigate the businesssupport structures as a viable instrument of regional development in Romania inthe specific economic context of Bihor County. The present paper aims toinvestigate the situation of business support structures in the Bihor County(Romania) in the EU context, if the business support structures contribute tothe local and regional development and what are the business support structuresthat can be developed by the Bihor County based on literature review andcontextual analysis. The first part of the paper provides a literature analysisof the business support structures, agglomeration economies and regionaldevelopment and provides an analytical framework of Bihor County?s economiccontext. In the second part, the paper presents the business support structuresfrom Bihor County followed by 4 case studies. The main conclusion of the paperis that, although there is an increased interest in the business supportstructures in Bihor county, the existing structures are insufficient andwithout a significant impact on local development, especially at the level ofsmall towns and rural areas. The data used for contextual analysis are based onlocal and regional statistics, local and regional development strategies,public and internal data of public and private organizations regarding EUfunded projects and business support structures.