Dear friends, potential investors and business partners,
This publication is celebrating 10 years since its first issue. I can say that it has become a useful tool assisting not only foreign investors but helping significantly to promote the South Moravian region and to improve its entrepreneurial environment. It should be noted that this publication has inspired various other regions both in the Czech Republic and abroad.
In its history, this publication has undergone a significant development, from providing necessary initial information to companies that wanted to establish branches in the South Moravian region to the current time when it is changing to focus more on foreign company employees and on opportunities for co-operating with South Moravian scientific research institutions. There is a high potential in this area thanks to the Regional Innovation Strategy and to the number of newly established research centres of regional to European significance in Brno and its vicinity.
We have long worked on this publication with numerous partners, expert guarantors of individual articles and chapters. For this reason, individual chapters represent experience verified in practice. The chapter containing practical information from the whole region is based on feedback from companies operating in various parts of the South Moravian region. Its goal is to collect the experience of different businesses with services provided in South Moravia and to share the findings with others. It needs to be pointed out that the Regional Development Agency of South Moravia is not responsible for the services as such, however the Agency believes that the recommendations of (satisfied) foreign investors themselves are sufficient quality indicators.
In conclusion, I would like to add that we welcome feedback on the content and structure of this brochure, which is regularly updated. So should you have ideas or proposals to share, we as well as other users will appreciate them very much.
Vladimír Gašpar
Director, Regional Development Agency of South Moravia
Regional Development Agency of South Moravia
The purpose of the Regional Development Agency of South Moravia (RRA JM) is to support the regional development on the territory of the South Moravian region. RRA JM therefore provides services to public sector bodies (putting emphasis on entities in the South Moravian region) as well as to other parties needing consultations concerning regional development. All services provided to investors are free of charge and are very much appreciated by them.
Our services include:
- Subsidies and EU projects – consulting and application writing
- Educational events on regional development, structural policy and project management
- General grant advisory
- Advisory in preparing entrepreneurial zones and properties, management of their portfolio
- Services and writing strategic and programme regional development documents
- Writing feasibility studies and cost-benefit analyses for prepared projects
- Assistance to investors (locality selection, organisation of visits, help with establishing a company, after care)
- Support of brownfield regeneration
- Advisory in EU innovation activities
Support for Investors
- Providing information on local conditions for entrepreneurial activities, tailor-made situation analyses
- Selecting of suitable localities respecting particular requirements
- Mediating contacts to land/property owners, labour offices, universities and local institutions involved in research and development; negotiations with local and regional bodies and institutions
- Organising and planning visits
- Since 2000, when we started offering assistance to foreign investors, we managed to place nearly 50 foreign companies. Our “clients”, who have successfully established themselves in South Moravia include Honeywell, IBM, Daido Metal, Daikin, Alps Electric and FEI Company.
Regional Development Agency of South Moravia
Královopolská 139, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic, www.rrajm.cz
Jan Hladík, tel.: +420 541 211 635, extension 120, e-mail: jan.hladik@rrajm.cz
Pavel Beránek, tel.: +420 541 211 635, extension 119, e-mail: pavel.beranek@rrajm.cz
