Elżbieta Ociepa-Kicińska

• PhD
• University of Szczecin

Municipalities play a particularly important role including the creation of appropriate living conditions and organising the proper functioning and development of the economy. This study examines how Polish and Latvian local governments foster entrepreneurship and the efficacy of financial and non-financial tools employed by local authorities in fa...

The decentralization of local government and the introduction in Poland of its three-tier division has been linked to the assignment to municipalities, counties and provinces of the implementation of certain public tasks, performed as own or commissioned tasks. The literature of economic and legal sciences has been dealing with this issue for many...

The concept of smart specialization is central to the European Union's support for countries and regions in determining their path of innovative economic growth. The purpose of the study is to verify how human capital in companies aff ects the ability to implement innovative activities carried out by these companies within the framework of smart sp...

According to the European Commission, the smart specialization strategy is intended as a response to complex development challenges and a tool for stimulating innovation at the regional level. At the same time, it is known that the conditions in which businesses operate, including institutional framework, socio-economic aspects, infrastructure and...

Objective: The article aims to determine the influence of specific entrepreneurship support instruments in each type of municipality on the increase entrepreneurship level as measured by the number of newly established companies in the area. Research Design & Methods: A survey was conducted among 896 Polish municipalities, asking about four areas o...

Municipalities play a particularly important role, including in creating appropriate living conditions and organizing the proper functioning and development of the economy. Taking into account the specifics of coastal municipalities, we verify how the activities of coastal municipal governments contribute to the development of local entrepreneurshi...

Smart specialization is one of the major public policies aimed at stimulation of innovations. The aim of this paper is to examine the interactions between implementation of innovation strategy in the form of RIS3, barriers and bottlenecks of innovation diffusion, and development of innovativeness in enterprises on a regional level. The analysis was...

The study aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the financial condition and mortality in Polish voivodeships. To achieve this objective, the relationship between the number of deaths before and during the pandemic and the financial condition of the provinces in Poland was studied. The study covered the years 2017–2020, for which a...

Gminy pełnią szczególnie ważną rolę, m.in. w tworzeniu odpowiednich warunków życia oraz organizowaniu prawidłowego funkcjonowania i rozwoju gospodarki. Uwzględniając specyfikę gmin nadmorskich, sprawdzamy, jak działania samorządów gmin nadmorskich przyczyniają się do rozwoju lokalnej przedsiębiorczości w Polsce i na Łotwie. Na podstawie wyników bad...

Działania podejmowane poprzez każdą jednostkę samorządu terytorialnego (JST) w celu minimalizowania wpływu pandemii COVID-19 na gospodarkę wiązały się z koniecznością wydatkowania środków publicznych w inny sposób niż było to zaplanowane w budżetach tych jednostek. Powszechna stała się opinia, że pandemia wpłynęła na kondycję finansową JST, brak je...

The Twenty-Fourth of February 2022 marked the beginning one of the greatest humanitarian crisis in Europe. Within the first six days of the war, the number of Ukrainian refugees exceeded 4 million, which is more than twice the total number of incomers who arrived in Europe during the Syrian migration throughout 2015. Most of them found themselves i...

The issue of optimal size of the general government sector is analyzed by researchers using various methods, most often through the prism of a specific goal. The article is an attempt to determine the optimal size of the general government sector from the perspective of EU economies. To achieve this goal, the innovative decision tree technique - th...

In the theory of economics, innovations are currently perceived as one of the most progressive factor of growth and development. After 30 years of economic transformation, combined with regular growth of productivity, the condition of Polish emerging economy is still negative in the respect of innovations. This especially concerns the activity of e...

Regional Innovation and Smart Specialisation Strategies (RIS3) are treated as one of the key tools in implementing the concept of smart and sustainable growth. The strategies make it possible to focus investments on research, development and innovation (RD & I) in the areas showing the greatest economic and competitive potential of the regions. The...

Podstawowym celem funkcjonowania systemu emerytalnego jest zapewnienie obywatelom dochodu oraz eliminacja ryzyka ubóstwa po zakończeniu ich aktywności zawodowej. Tradycyjne systemy emerytalne, oparte na zasadzie repartycji, nie są odporne na zmiany w strukturze demograficznej społeczeństwa. Jednym z rozwiązań prowadzących do złagodzenia pogarszania...

Regional development is a complex economic category and a commonly used term today, yet it is vaguely defined and, therefore, interpreted implicitly and understood intuitively. From a statistical point of view, this concept, on account of its imprecision and ambiguity, is a kind of multidimensional characteristic which may be measured, though not c...

The progressing “metropolisation” of the economy is connected with the intensive development of some cities considered to be metropolises or potential metropolises. One of the prerequisites needed to achieve a good rate of development is providing support to enterprises in the form of financial instruments constructed in such a way that their imple...

This article analyses the significance of smart specialisations in enhancing the innovative policy paradigm in the regions. Smart specialisations by definition should play a major role in stimulating innovativeness at the regional level, in particular with regard to enhancing the region's potential, its resources, key competences and competitive ad...

Działalność kredytowa banków jest nierozerwalnie związana z ryzykiem, którego nie można całkowicie wyeliminować. Banki, dążąc do udoskonalania metod zmierzających do ograniczenia ryzyka kredytowego, oprócz procedur związanych z warunkami udzie-lania kredytów, podejmują także współpracę z zakładami ubezpieczeń, określaną mianem bancassurance. W arty...

W artykule podjęto próbę odpowiedzi na pytanie, czy istnienie i rozwój metropolii przyczynia się do wzrostu poziomu rozwoju regionalnego, czy może obszar metropolitalny rozwija się kosztem regionu, deprecjonując znaczenie i możliwości wzrostowe obszarów peryferyjnych. Celem opracowania jest zbadanie poziomu rozwoju społeczno-gospodarczego gmin nale...

The aim of the study is to analyze the basis of introduced changes and PPK construction, compare the principles of the PPK operation with other solutions of the second and third pillar of the Polish pension system and analyze the opportunities and threats resulting from the launch of a new financial tool in the form of PPK.

"Jak wytłumaczyć fakt, że osoba rozważająca możliwość zakupu używanego samochodu za 30 tysięcy złotych dokonuje jego uważnych oględzin, natomiast niefrasobliwie traktuje kwestię wyboru funduszu emerytalnego, który kiedyś będzie zarządzał jej środkami na rachunku emerytalnym o wartości nawet 300 tysięcy zł?”. Zachowania Polaków zmierzające do zwięks...

Reforma systemu emerytalnego przeprowadzona w 1999 roku w Polsce miała na celu poprawę bezpieczeństwa środków gromadzonych na wypłatę świadczeń emerytalnych. W jej wyniku wprowadzono dwa obowiązkowe filary systemu emerytalnego. Filar I zarządzany przez Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych, filar II w formie Otwartych Funduszy Emerytalnych jest natomiast...