Marzenna Anna Weresa

Marzenna Anna Weresa
SGH Warsaw School of Economics | SGH · Institute of World Economy

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Universities have a pivotal role to play in the challenging restructuring process that economies are undergoing due to higher education's critical role in the information age. Universities can contribute to this process of change by creating new knowledge as well as by shaping new skills, which are necessary for exploiting modern technologies and u...
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The recent COVID-19 crisis, as well as the resulting international response, have demonstrated the importance of medical innovation in meeting current and future health challenges. Yet capacity for innovation differs from country to country, and policymakers are wise to find ways to increase each nation’s ability to generate new solutions. This stu...
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The aim of this chapter is to identify a pattern of international trade in medical products in the context of tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical products are grouped according to classifications of the World Trade Organization into four categories: pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, medical consumables, and personal protective products. This...
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The definition of a healthcare system evolves continuously, becoming broader and more complex with each rendering. Healthcare systems can consist of many different elements, including but not limited to: access to comprehensive medical care, health promotion, disease prevention, institutional framework, financing schemes, government responsibility...
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This chapter compares risk factors for lung cancer and their significance for 27 countries in the European Union (EU). Drawing on data from a variety of sources, this study uses K-mean cluster analysis to investigate potentially modifiable risk factors for cancer including tobacco use, alcohol consumption, air pollution, socioeconomic status, and p...
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W monografii, na którą składa się sześć rozdziałów, przeprowadzono szczegółową analizę celów i narzędzi współczesnej polityki innowacyjnej. W rozdziale pierwszym przedstawiono najnowszy dorobek odnoszący się do teorii innowacji i ekonomicznej interpretacji różnych jej wymiarów. Pokazano, jak ewoluowało podejście do modelowania procesów innowacyjnyc...
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The study aims at estimating the effects of support for research and development and innovation from the European Union (EU) budget for boosting innovation in European enterprises, using input, output, and behavioral additionality approach. The study is based on microdata of the Community Innovation Survey 2012–2014, covering a sample of 98,809 ent...
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Pandemia COVID-19 oraz podjęte przez rządy i organizacje międzynarodowe decyzje i działania zmieniły w diametralny sposób warunki konkurowania w gospodarce światowej. Jedną z kluczowych cech umożliwiających osiągnięcie wysokiej pozycji konkurencyjnej stała się odporność (resilience) na kryzys, wzrosło również znaczenie zrównoważonego wymiaru konkur...
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Głównym celem niniejszego rozdziału jest identyfikacja kluczowych elementów zrównoważonej konkurencyjności oraz określenie sposobów pomiaru tego zjawiska. Przedstawiony niżej przegląd dotychczasowej literatury przedmiotu na ten temat pozwoli wyznaczyć mocne i słabe strony koncepcji zrównoważonej konkurencyjności oraz kierunki dalszych badań nad tym...
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Celem rozdziału jest określenie poziomu innowacyjności polskiej gospodarki w latach 2015–2020 w ujęciu makro- (całego kraju), mezo- (regionów) oraz mikroekonomicznym (przedsiębiorstw). Wyniki Polski w zakresie innowacyjności wyznaczanej na poziomie całej gospodarki są zestawione z rezultatami osiągniętymi przez inne państwa członkowskie Unii Europe...
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The article focuses on the innovation divide in the world economy, in which some countries are technological leaders whereas the others are technological followers; however, a continuous innovation convergence has been taking place over the last decades. The aim of the paper is to measure the dynamics of the innovation gap between China and both th...
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The main objective of this monograph is to determine the competitive position of the Polish economy in 2020 in comparison with other EU member states. In view of the pandemic-induced strong slowdown in international trade growth and capital flows, an additional specific goal of the monograph is to determine the status of Poland’s bilateral economic...
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Głównym celem monografii jest wyznaczenie pozycji konkurencyjnej polskiej gospodarki w 2020 r. na tle pozostałych państw członkowskich Unii Europejskiej. Książka podzielona jest na trzy części, w obrębie których uporządkowano tematycznie poszczególne rozdziały, a główne wnioski płynące z zaprezentowanych w nich studiów przedstawiono w wieńczącym mo...
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Innovation is believed to be a key driver of societal and economic well-being. In many cases, it has also led to more sustainable lifestyles and a more efficient use of natural resources. But despite the relevance of innovation as a tool to support sustainable development , there is a need for research that analyses current trends in order to guide...
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This chapter argues that the way out of the middle-income trap in which the Emerging European Economies (EEE) seem to be stuck is through R&D and innovation with the support of a competitive, high quality, and research intensive higher education sector. Using detailed and extensive data analysis, we show how far they lag behind the more advanced EU...
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Innovation is believed to be a key driver of societal and economic well-being. In many cases, it has also led to more sustainable lifestyles and a more efficient use of natural resources. But despite the relevance of innovation as a tool to support sustainable development, there is a need for research that analyses current trends in order to guide...
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Recently, the role of universities is gradually shifting from academic focus towards more entrepreneurial and innovation-oriented. This requires creativity and interaction, in terms of innovation, research and educational activities of universities. The challenge of developing creativity is crucial particularly for countries like Poland, which stil...
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Sustainable competitiveness is a relatively new concept, but rising in importance in face of external shocks that have impacted the economy in the last years, like COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine or the climate changes and related energy crisis. Considering this, resilience to crisis has become one of the key drivers of a strong competitive p...
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Pandemia COVID-19 i podjęte przez rządy i organizacje międzynarodowe decyzje i działania w diametralny sposób zmieniły warunki konkurowania w gospodarce światowej. Jedną z kluczowych cech umożliwiających osiągnięcie wysokiej pozycji konkurencyjnej stała się odporność (resiliance) na kryzys, wzrosło również znaczenie zrównoważonego wymiaru konkurenc...
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Cancer burden in the European Union (EU) is increasing and has stimulated the European Commission (EC) to develop strategies for cancer control. A common “one size fits all” prevention policy may not be effective in reducing cancer morbidity and mortality. The goal of this paper is to show that EU member states are not homogenous in terms of their...
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Despite the growing economic and social importance of services, there is still a significant research gap regarding their importance for the international competitiveness of the economy. The question therefore arises: “How can the service sector contribute to increasing the competitive advantage in today’s global economy?” An answer to this questio...
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Niniejsze opracowanie stanowi wynik projektu badawczego zrealizowanego w ramach Instytutu Gospodarki Światowej SGH w Warszawie, którego celem było przedstawienie chińskiej Inicjatywy Pasa i Szlaku (BRI), motywów za nią stojących, głównych jej składowych oraz obecnych i potencjalnych przyszłych skutków. Realizacja tego projektu przypadła na okres pr...
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To date, no results have been published regarding cluster analysis of risk factors for cancer in Poland. Many cancer deaths are preventable through the modification of cancer risk behaviours. This study explores the multidisciplinary connection between lifestyle, environment and socioeconomic status (SES). Cluster analyses indicate that major metro...
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Polska, składając 30 lat temu wniosek o rozpoczęcie rozmów w sprawie Układu Europejskiego, rozpoczęła drogę ku członkostwu w Unii Europejskiej. Kolejne etapy tego procesu (związane z negocjacjami umowy stowarzyszeniowej i jej wdrażaniem, procesem dostosowywania systemu prawnego oraz gospodarki do wymagań unijnych, rokowaniami akcesyjnymi oraz akcep...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the implications of the fourth industrial revolution for technological competitiveness, its definition and measurement methods. An empirical part is aimed at identifying comparative advantages of the European Union in digital technologies. Recently new approaches have appeared to measure digital competitivene...
Technical Report
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This report provides the analyses of four areas of structural reforms undertaken in Poland in the period 2013–2018, i.e.: 1) Innovation and R&D, analysed in Part I; 2) The availability of suitable labour supply and skills, analysed in Part II; 3) The improved business (regulatory) environment, analysed in Part III, and 4) Measures to foster busines...
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The main objective of the book is to evaluate the effects of EU policy instruments that promote a stronger European dimension of the R&D base in the European Union. This objective can be split into a few specific objectives, which are defined as follows: • Evaluation of the impact of public R&D support on innovation in selected European countries;...
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The objective of this chapter is to determine Poland's ability to innovate and its innovative position compared to other European Union member states, especially countries with a similar level of economic development. The analysis covers the period of 2010–2017 and contributes to determining the role of innovation in shaping the competitive advanta...
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Celem rozdziału jest określenie zdolności i pozycji innowacyjnej Polski w porównaniu z innymi krajami członkowskimi Unii Europejskiej, zwłaszcza tymi o podobnym do Polski poziomie rozwoju gospodarczego. Analiza obejmuje okres 2010-2017 i stanowi przyczynek do określenia roli innowacji w kształtowaniu przewag konkurencyjnych polskiej gospodarki.
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The UK has a strong science base and the country’s innovation performance, as measured by the European Union’s Summary Innovation Index, has improved by 11.7% since 2010. The British innovation system is highly internationalised compared with its counterparts in other EU member states. The involvement of UK researchers in European research projects...
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Poland: Report on Competitiveness 2018. The Role of Cities in Creating Competitive Advantages is the latest edition of a long-standing series of comparative research on the main trends in the development of Polish economy, which has been conducted in the World Economy Research Institute of Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) since the mid-1980 s. The...
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The article analyses the impact of inward foreign direct investments on innovation in the Visegrad countries. Given the differences between theory-and empirics-based studies, this paper takes a two-angle approach, i.e. establishment of heterogeneity of results within the literature and examination with own empirics. Empirics results show that inwar...
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Research and innovation strategies are the pillars of Europe’s 2030 strategy: achieving growth that is smart, inclusive and sustainable. Key to this process is providing a direction for change, while also enabling bottom up experimentation and exploration. Directions for innovation can be guided towards the grand challenges facing societies, whethe...
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Both research and development policy and innovation policy are part of government economic policy, as science, technology, and innovation are inextricably linked to entrepreneurship. However, the connection between economics and policies with respect to science, technology, and innovation is neither simple nor straightforward. This is due to the fa...
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The aim of this paper was to identify factors that should be taken into account in order to explain the role of scientific advice in innovation policy making. This paper shows that effective policy development in the area of research and innovation requires a high-quality and effective system of scientific policy advice as well as appropriate use o...
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This chapter aims to examine changes in the competitiveness of 11 European Union member states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE11) from 2007 to 2014. The empirical research builds on a synthesis of key theories that explain the concept of competitiveness and expand it to include sustainable competitiveness, a new notion that takes into account so...
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Niniejsza monografia stanowi kontynuację badań porównawczych na temat głównych tendencji rozwoju polskiej gospodarki, prowadzonych w Instytucie Gospodarki Światowej Szkoły Głównej Handlowej w Warszawie we współpracy z ośrodkami międzynarodowymi. Celem badań jest ocena zmian konkurencyjności polskiej gospodarki w latach 2010–2015 ze szczególnym uwzg...
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There is no doubt that public funding is one of the important factors that can boost innovation. However, the efficiency of its use may differ depending on where public support goes, how it is distributed, and so on. Therefore, it is interesting to see how public funding supports innovation in Poland compared with other EU countries. In particular,...
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This book is the 2016 edition of a long-standing series of comparative studies on key development trends in the Polish economy conducted by the World Economy Research Institute at the Warsaw School of Economics since the late 1980s in association with a number of other international research centers. The aim of this year’s research is to assess cha...
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Finansowanie ze środków publicznych jest jednym z ważnych czynników, które mogą pobudzić innowacyjność, jednak skuteczność jego stosowania może się różnić w zależności od tego, gdzie pomoc publiczna jest skierowana, jak jest dystrybuowana itp. Z tego względu istnieje potrzeba porównania efektów finansowego wsparcia publicznego dla innowacji w Polsc...
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Celem artykułu jest identyfikacja najważniejszych tendencji występujących we współczesnej polityce innowacyjnej, zarówno w ujęciu koncepcyjnym, jak i od strony praktycznej jej implementacji. W artykule przedstawiono teoretyczne podejście do polityki innowacyjnej, które uzupełnia szczegółowa analiza porównawcza celów i narzędzi tej polityki w państw...
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This book, entitled ‘Regional Dimension of the EU Economic Policy in Poland’, has been prepared within the framework of a research project coordinated by the Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration in the Collegium of World Economy at the Warsaw School of Economics. The main objective of the research was to assess the consequences and compatibili...
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Competitiveness is a broad concept that refers to sustainable economic growth, but also to the ability to improve the living standards of a society, strengthen a country’s position on foreign markets, and increase its attractiveness to foreign direct investment. Competitiveness embraces a wide range of issues and defies easy determination when it c...
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Konkurencyjność to koncepcja, która odnosi się do utrzymania trwałego wzrostu gospodarczego, ale oznacza również zdolność do poprawy poziomu życia społeczeństwa, wzmocnienia pozycji na rynkach zagranicznych oraz wzrostu atrakcyjności danego terytorium dla inwestycji kapitału zagranicznego. Szerokie spektrum zagadnień, które zawiera w sobie pojęcie...
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W Unii Europejskiej przyjęto wspólną strategię wspierania innowacji i konkuren-cyjności. W pierwszej dekadzie XXI wieku jej zasady zapisane były w dokumencie " Strategia lizbońska " , a na lata 2010–2020 przyjęto strategię " Europa 2020 " , która zakłada utworzenie na obszarze UE unii innowacji (EC 2010). Jednakże wspólna dla wszystkich państw UE s...
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The main objective of this chapter is to determine the innovation capacity of the Polish economy from 2007 to 2014, and to examine the changes that occurred in this area, in particular during the global economic crisis of2007-2010. The innovation performance of the Polish economy will be compared with other EU member states and selected non-EU coun...
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Celem artykułu jest charakterystyka funkcjonowania systemu innowacji w dziedzinie technologii ICT, określenie światowych liderów w tworzeniu wiedzy w tym obszarze oraz wskazane trajektorii rozwoju tego systemu w różnych krajach. Analiza empiryczna zawarta w artykule obejmuje 30 państw zróżnicowanych pod względem poziomu rozwoju gospodarczego oraz r...
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The main objective of this paper is to find out whether innovation shaped the competitive advantages of Poland in the first decade of the 21st century. In particular, the research covers innovations embedded in the social and environmental pillars of sustainable competitiveness. Poland’s competitive performance and innovativeness are compared with...
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With the acceleration of globalization processes, human capital stock and quality as well as invention and innovations have become particularly important. The greater mobility of capital on an international scale has led to a situation in which its allocation in a given country is increasingly determined by the quality of labor, in addition to such...
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The aim of this chapter is to identify, on the basis of the theory, the relationship between human capital and innovativeness and international competitiveness of the economy. The previous parts of the monograph determined the analytical framework that will be used to conduct this evaluation.
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The aim of the paper is to discuss European and Poland’s innovation policy and find out if the measures address crucial challenges of regional innovation system restructuring. Increasing innovativeness of Polish regions is extremely important for their investment attractiveness as their competitiveness, when expressed as labor costs in relation to...
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This monograph presents the results of the latest comparative studies conducted by the World Economy Research Institute at the Warsaw School of Economics. The book aims to determine Poland’s competitive position in the European Union 10 years after the country’s entry into the bloc. The Polish economy is shown in a broader comparative perspective a...
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Poland and other EU countries from Central and Eastern Europe restructured their innovation systems gradually, with some delay compared with the speed of economic transition in this region. The results of the analysis conducted in this chapter show that Poland’s national innovation system is in need of further restructuring. Even though most innova...
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This work focuses on researching and establishing the importance of human capital and innovation as determinants of competitive advantages in international trade—in the context of rapidly evolving technological advancement, globalization, and economic integration. The processes that accompany the shift from industrial economics to a knowledge-based...
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This book presents the results of systematic comparative research conducted for more than 20 years at the World Economy Institute of the Warsaw School of Economics. This year’s edition seeks to evaluate changes in the competitiveness of the Polish economy in 2012, at both the macroeconomic and regional levels. This assessment is the basis for a fur...
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Niniejsza monografia koncentruje się na ocenie znaczenia dla międzynarodowej konkurencyjności gospodarek dwóch zyskujących obecnie na znaczeniu czynników, a mianowicie kapitału ludzkiego oraz innowacji. Międzynarodowa konkurencyjność gospodarek rozumiana jest tutaj w wąskim znaczeniu jako utrzymywanie długookresowych przewag konkurencyjnych w handl...
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Książka zawiera kompleksową ocenę innowacyjności krajów regionów i branż funkcjonujących w różnych częściach naszego globu oraz wskazuje przyszłych liderów technologicznych. Zawiera charakterystykę systemów innowacji i specjalizacji technologicznej ponad 60 krajów świata, wskazuje liderów w zakresie rozwoju nowoczesnych technologii, m.in. takich ja...
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The aim is to assess Poland’s position in terms of foreign capital flows and stocks compared with those of its peers, i.e. selected EU10 countries.11 This assessment is supplemented by an econometric study focused on FDI determinants that are significant for attracting FDI to EU10 countries. In particular, the importance of education is estimated i...
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Palenie tytoniu nadal wpływa na statystyki umieralności w Polsce. Wyniki Globalnego Sondażu dot. Używania Tytoniu Przez Osoby Dorosłe (Global Adult Tobacco Survey, GATS) z 2009 roku dowodzą, że 36,9% mężczyzn i 24,4% kobiet w Polsce bylo palaczami tytoniu. Stosunkowo wysoki odsetek palaczy występuje także wśród polskiej młodzieży. Przeprowadzony w...
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This paper offers in-depth analysis of patenting activity in Poland, showing Poland’s strengths and weaknesses in the field of technology. To combine local and global perspective with regard to Poland’s competitiveness, two patent-based indicators are analysed: the Revealed Technological Comparative Advantage (RTCA) index and the Patent Share (PS)...
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A key component of economic globalization, foreign direct investment (FDI) plays a special role in stimulating the growth of countries’ competitiveness. This book provides a comprehensive insight into the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth, with a special focus on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The empi...
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This paper uses the concept of the National Innovation System (NIS) to analyse recent changes in Poland’s institutional and policy framework. The analysis looks at innovation efforts as linked to broader macroeconomic and educational initiatives. This paper characterises current changes in the main components of NIS in Poland focusing on new measur...
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The paper examines the extent to which the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) helps Poland to catch up with the EU. FDI can facilitate the process of catching up mainly through transfer and diffusion of technology, which leads to upgrading of technological and innovative potential of a host country. The paper is aimed at assessing whether FD...
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Celem pracy jest właśnie próba odpowiedzi na pytanie czy i w jakim stopniu wielkość i struktura wymiany handlowej oraz zagranicznych inwestycji bezpośrednich wpływają na proces tworzenia i dyfuzji innowacji w Polsce. Ponadto, dodatkowym celem jest również sformułowanie wniosków, które mogłyby być przydatne dla prowadzonej w Polsce polityki pobudzan...
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Over 75% of FDI in Poland originates from the EU. The EU also predominates in the exports and imports of FDI companies. The objective of this article is to examine whether FDI is likely to replace trade or to create new trade flows. In particular, the article shows the influence of FDI on Poland's trade with the EU. The FDI impact on Polish trade c...
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This paper uses the theoretical approach of national innovative capacity developed by S. Stern, M. Porter and J. Furman to assess performance of the new EU Member States in creation and diffusion of knowledge, and compare it with the EU average. In particular, this paper explores the gap existing between EU average and the new EU members for a set...
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Raport w sprawie opodatkowania wyrobów tytoniowych sfinansowany przez organizację Bloomberg Philanthropies oraz fundację Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation w ramach Inicjatywy Bloomberga na Rzecz Ograniczenia Używania Tytoniu.

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Cele projektu : 1. Określenie międzynarodowej pozycji konkurencyjnej Polski na tle innych państw członkowskich Unii Europejskiej i wybranych gospodarek wschodzących 2. Ocena poziomu współpracy z gospodarkami będącymi ważnymi partnerami gospodarczymi Polski, takimi jak Niemcy, Rosja, Chiny i Indie 3. Określenie priorytetów polskiej polityki dotyczącej współpracy gospodarczej z kluczowymi partnerami.
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Collaboration between SGH Warsaw School of Economcs and Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU): Study & 2 international publications about economic aspects of cancer Cancer Health Policy Summer School (2 editions at NEIU July/August 2019 and 2020, 6 students from Warsaw School of Economics join NEIU students) Math Modelling Workshops (November 2019 – NEIU, May 2020 – SGH, November 2020 – NEIU) Women in Science Conference (2 editions at NEIU: Nov 2019 and 2020)