Sources of founding of regional investments

The thesis deals with the sources of funding of regional investments. Financing the investments by own resources is very difficult and maybe even impossible. Regions gained the opportunity to co-finance investments using European subsidies after the accession to the European Union. This thesis tries to find out what is the meaning of these subsidies to finance regional investments. The primary objective of this work is to determine the share of European subsidies on regional investments. Furthermore the thesis focuses on finding the common features of these investments and subsidies. The results of the analysis shows that proportion of European subsidies on capital expenditure is significantly different between regions. The amount of share is between 23-99%. European subsidies are mainly used for large investments, especially in investments in transport infrastructure. Regions usually utilize subsidies only from the regional operational programs. The conclusions of this work can be used in determining goals of EU regional policy