Innovative potential of human capitals as the criterion for diversification and regional space segmentation in selected European Union countries

The objective of the hereby study is to identify interregional diversification and administrative units NUTS II type segmentation, occurring in selected countries which have recently become the European Union member states: the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. The criterion for assessing interregional disproportions becomes the innovative potential of human capital, characterized by the share of university graduates and the share of research and development centers workers, in the total number of professionally active employees (in %).