The research program on innovativeness of the Polish economy was launched in 2005. Its indirect goal was and is to stimulate innovative processes in the Polish economy and to show national achievements in the field of innovation, as well as to identify companies most focused on development. Within its framework a number of projects can be specified which merit special attention.
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Main products and results: Publications
Seminars
Awards
Lists
Social process
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• 6 Reports on the Innovativeness of Polish Economy (in Polish) • 1 sectoral report (in Polish and English)
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Building a social structure around innovative challenges in Poland: |
Report on Innovativeness of the Polish Economy
So far in 2005–2011 years, six national reports on innovation were published. They contain a total of 170 original articles and have 1682 pages. Their authors are experts representing the leading research centres, which conduct research in the field of innovation in Poland. The scientific editor of all publications is prof. Tadeusz Baczko. An integral part of each Report is the List of the 500 Most Innovative Companies in Poland. The winners of the ranking, the most innovative companies in Poland, have been already rewarded with this title five times. During the first edition, the awards ceremony – the Innovation Tuning-fork – took place during the ceremony gala on 13th December 2005 in the Main Hall of the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Since then, the formula of innovation gala has expanded to include regional meetings. They took place in Gdańsk, Łódź, Katowice, Poznań, Sopot and Wrocław. In total, more than 2 thousand people participated therein. Since 2009 the awards ceremonies have been held in the Mirror Room of the Staszic Palace in Warsaw, seat of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The innovation galas have been assessed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland as an important achievement in the science promotion. A honorary patronage over the galas was taken, in 2006, by the representatives of the European Commission, prof. Danuta Hübner – the Commissioner of the European Commission responsible for regional policy, and in 2007, by Dr Janez Potočnik – the Commissioner responsible for scientific and research policy. The Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Poland and the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences held the honorary patronage over the reports itself. The report has also evolved. It was not only the catalogue of issues raised by the authors of individual chapters, which were expanded, but also the range of companies research. The list of the most innovative products and services was included into the Report in 2006, subrankings including the most innovative micro-companies, small and medium companies in 2006 and regional lists in 2006. New publications, highlighting different areas connected with innovation, appeared i.e the List of companies patenting in Poland (2010) and the List of the Largest Investors in Research and Development (2010). From 2011 the companies from the 500 List receive the innovation certificates together including assessment with the 5A System. In the years 2005–2007 the partner of the project was BRE Bank S.A., while the media partner was “Gazeta Prawna”. In 2005 and 2006 a series of articles on innovation was published in “Gazeta Prawna”. In addition, for three years special supplements presenting ranking results of the most innovative companies were published there.
Regional Reports on innovativeness
The idea of preparing reports on innovativeness, not only at national level, but also at regions level, has already appeared during organization of the regional Innovation Galas. It was implemented in 2008, when 16 voivodship regional reports were developed. Each of the voivodship reports contained regional
analysis, microeconomic analysis, lists of the most innovative companies in a voivodship, lists of large, small and medium and micro firms, lists of innovative products and services in a voivodship and lists of the research and developing centres, as well as scientific institutes. The important part of reports became the innovative companies maps. The Regional Reports were officially presented at the conference organized by the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency at its head office at Bagatela Str. in Warsaw. The next edition of the report has been prepared in 2010.
Report on the Largest Investors in Research and Development in Poland
The first ranking of largest investors in research and development was published in 2010 and was presented at the special conference during which the winners were awarded diplomas. A year later the ranking was completed with the analytical part and published as the Report on the Largest Investors in Research and Development in Poland in 2010. The ranking winners received diplomas as in the previous year.
List of Patenting in Poland Companies
For the first time the list of the approved patents appeared in the Report on Innovativeness of the Polish Economy in 2005. Since 2010, it has changed its formula slightly and is treated as a separate project. Twice, in 2010 and 2011 the companies holding most of the patents received awards from the management of the MSN Scientific Network, INE PAN and the Polish Patent Offfice. In 2011, the publication contained the lists of patenting companies in 2010 and in the years of 2005–2009, as well as analytic study to them were also released. In 2010 the companies which have obtained the most patents prepared with the participation of women, were awarded in the presence of the President of the Polish Patent Office.
Sector reports
The first of the reports for areas of the economy, outstanding in terms of innovation, is devoted to the aviation sector. The bilingual report prepared in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Poland was presented at the conference on the aviation sector, which took place on 13th October 2011 in Warsaw. The conference received the patronage of the Polish Presidency in the European Council, Ministry of Regional Development of the Republic of Poland and the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development. The conference has been prepared by the Institute of Aviation, together with the Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the MSN Scientific Network coordinated by the Institute. The conference was accompanied by the first exhibition under the title Innovativeness of aviation.
Innovation Strategy for Poland
On the basis of the firm survey results obtained in 2009, a series of seminars and conferences were launched to define the Innovation Strategy for Poland. The aim of the events is to initiate the participatory initiative for the integration of social environment, public institutions and innovative companies. It should lead to defining a basic assumption of the innovation development in Poland. The strategy will include activities for the launch of specific legal, institutional and informational solutions. It is orientated horizontally, taking into account activities for the social and economic development and global changes. It includes directions of innovation in public sector, infrastructure and environment, in strategy of companies, development of foreign research and development centres, as well as economic, social, psychological and cultural issues connecting with the propagation of innovative models. The strategy is prepared in accordance with the most important Polish and international strategic documents, with particular reference to the OECD Innovation Strategy.
Future-oriented research (foresight)
As a result of conducting research on innovativeness of Polish enterprises in 2005-2006, Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences entered Innovativeness research program at INE PAN 135
three research consortiums conducting foresight projects in 2006-2008. These are, The National Program Foresight Polska 2020, the ROTMED consortium conducting the project Monitoring system and scenarios of the medical technologies development in Poland and the FOREMAT consortium conducting the project Scenarios of technology development of the metallic, ceramic and composite materials. Entering the consortia resulted in further expanding of research topics, first of all, by the elements dominating in topic of each of them and also gave specific skills and experience in managing by the Institute of large research projects, including those financed from the European funds.
Remaining research results
- consultation of the project Strategy of Innovation and Efficiency of
Economy of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Poland (2011) - cooperation with the Ministry of Economy in organization of Roundtable on OECD Innovation Strategy – Towards New Perception of Innovation (2010)
- the book The Future of Science and Technology and Innovation Indicators and the Challenges Implied, which is a record of discussion on the measurement of innovation (2009)
- talks with the Market Street Associations company from San Francisco, operating in the area of the Santa Clara (Silicon Valley) and dealing with, among others, transfer of technologies from research centres into economic practice connected with cooperation in creating of the semantic platform by MSA (2009–2010)
- The book Poland and Russia on the road to innovative development under scientific editing of prof. Joanna Kotowicz-Jawor, written in cooperation of the Polish and Russian Academy of Sciences, cooperation within the Standing Committee of Economists of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences (2008)
- establishment of the partnership limited company Park Innowacyjny Celestynów Unipress. The main goal is to build the modern research and implementation centre in Celestynów – Innovation Park (2008)
- distinction of the research program on innovation of the Polish economy conducted by the Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (INE PAN). INE PAN has been distinguished as a model example of the cooperation between science, business and media. As a case study, it has been introduced during the training Promotion in Science and has been described in detail in the brochure Promotion in Science and in the bilingual folder Kaleidoscope of Science 2007 (2006–2007)
- joint research with the European University Viadrina and Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) on importance of localization factors and efficiency and innovation of the companies in Poland and East Germany (2006–2007)
- carrying out research works for the international network European Techno-Economic Policy Support Network – ETEPS AISBL (2005–2006)
- cooperation with the network of the European Commission ERAWATCH (2005–2006)
- participation in the IRIM project – Industrial Research Investment Monitoring, within the 6th Framework Program of the European Union (2005–2006)
- conferences with the participation of the outstanding world authorities in the range of research methodologies i.e. the founder of fractal geometry prof. Benoit Mandelbrot (2005) and the Chairman of NESTI (National Experts on Science & Technology Indicators) in OECD dr Fred Gault (2006).