Archival project Women Integration and Skills for Entrepreneurship The main objective of the project was an international comparative analysis of educational policies in the area of women’s entrepreneurship and its implementation in different countries. In addition, the project involved identifying and disseminating good practices in the European system for education and training of women entrepreneurs.…
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EuroTermBank
Archival project The project involved collaboration of terminological institutions in collecting European terminology resources, completed within the framework of the European e-Content programme. The aim of the programme was to harmonize and consolidate activities in the field of terminology in the new member states of the European Union, on the basis of performance and experience…
Technologies in the SME sector
Archival project The main premise of project launch was the apparent lack of both regional systems, and a uniform national system for providing services to small and medium-sized enterprises in the field of broadly defined technology transfer and support of innovation. Ośrodek Przetwarzania Informacji (OPI) in Warsaw is one of two institutions implementing STIM in…
Efficiency of scientific institutions
Archival project The aim of the project was to build a culture of evaluation in the public scientific institutions, in particular in terms of efficient use of funds financed from the 6. and 7. Framework Programme. The project covered universities, branches of the Polish Academy of Sciences, research institutes, other organizations that use or intend…
Technical sciences in Poland
Our analysis of the innovation activities of research institutes (then: research and development entities), universities and institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences was also enriched with data from 2006 and 2007. Project title: Analysis of the technical sciences sector in Poland in the years 2001-2005
Women in science
The Glass Ceiling Index (CGI) developed by Eurostat is an indicator of real chances of women in comparison to men of achieving a high position in the academic hierarchy. While in Poland the GCI value has been slowly, but steadily decreasing for more than a decade, and the proportion of women among academic lecturers is…
Open science
In the 21st century, the idea ofopen science is becoming a more and more widespread research model. Popularity and growing importance of openness at all stages of the research process and scientific communication has its advocates in the international institutions, the European Commission, the OECD and major research centers. We observe more and more initiatives…
Financing of Polish science
We conducted a multivariate analysis of the volume of funds allocated from the state budget for statutory activities of higher education institutions in Poland in the years 2007-2010. The analysis covered: Identification of trends in allocation of funds from the state budget for statutory activities of higher education institutions just before the introduction of the…
Technology transfer: between science and business
Economic development of countries and regions increasingly depends on results of scientific studies and research.Technology transfer centers therefore play an important role as supporters of the transfer of knowledge between researchers and entrepreneurs. What is the situation in our country? Are the centers of innovation and entrepreneurship really helpful in creating competitive advantage? To answer…
Analysis of best practices in the management of R&D works
Management of each project is challenging.However, when we are dealing with a research and development project, and therefore one that is risky, pioneering and non-schematic, the case becomes increasingly complicated. How do the Polish research institutes universities, companies meet this challenge? What is the profile of the Polish scientist involved in such projects? What is…