Recently a still more urgent need can be felt to examine enterprise as an actor of regional development and regional competitiveness, because they are significantly contributed by enterprising subjects. The present paper analyzes contributions of enterprises in the development of individual regions of Slovakia especially with regard to the effects connected with production and employment. With the use of statistical methods the tendencies of convergence or divergence of selected indicators of regional competitiveness are outlined, and the position of individual regions in the environment of Slovakia is identified. 

enterprising subjects, regional competitiveness, convergence, divergence, indicators of economic productivity