Zdenek Mikolas
Ostrava Business School
zdenek.mikolas(at) vsp.cz

Education: PhD in Economy, Habilitation in the field of Business and Management, Professor of Business Economics and Management.

Work experience: VSB-Technical University of Ostrava (1977-1985, 1990-1991, 1994-2011), VÚROM - Research Institute for the development of regions and cities of Ostrava (1985-88, 1991-94), SMEZ - North Moravian Power company Ostrava (1988 -90), VŠP - Ostrava Business School (2011 -), Consultant in Business (1990 -). Others: OECD (France) - Working Group Business Clusters (2002-2004), WSZMiJO Katowice (Poland, 2004-2006), UE Katowice (Poland, 2009 -).

Research area: Competitiveness of industrial enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises, business diagnostics.

Ladislav Ludvik
Technical University of Ostrava
ladislav.ludvik(at) vsb.cz

Education: PhD in theory of management and planning (1988), Associate Professor in business administration and management at the VSB – Technical University of Ostrava (from 2001).

Work experience: He gained a lot of practical and research experience at Research Centre for Development of Towns and Regions in Ostrava as a researcher and head of several projects focused on the affectivity of the economic development of the Czech Republic and reconstruction and development of regions. For example, in 2006 he participated on ex-ante analysis for preparing of operational programme „Entrepreneurship and Innovations in the Czech Republic in years 2007 – 2013. Now he works at VSB – Technical University Ostrava, Faculty of Economics, department of Business Administration.

Research area: Problems of entrepreneurial environment, trends and development of entrepreneurship. He is a member of commission for science, research and universities in the Council of the Moravian-Silesian region.