The Digital Single Market is gradually emerging based on successive directives and regulations of EU bodies; some of them have already entered into force, some will be published in the perspective of the next year. The publication prepared by an interdisciplinary team of economists, lawyers and sociologists from DELab UW aims to introduce Polish entrepreneurs to issues related to the Digital Single Market, and thus encourage them to take advantage of the opportunities to develop their own business activity.
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The EU Engineroom focuses on identifying and assessing the key enabling technologies and issues that will underpin the next generation internet in 2025. The three main pillars of the Engineroom are: Developing a novel data-driven methodology to identify early signals of new trends and technologies, Mapping the ecosystems and networks surrounding key issues, assessing their social, legal, technological, ethical and economic contexts, and Creating a values-driven vision of what the future internet could and should look like, drawing on a range of expert perspectives from across Europe.
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Many articles and books can be written about new technologies, and one can imagine far ahead. Is it possible to study the social future? Yes! In addition, a crystal ball is not needed for this, but forecasting from observable trends is enough. Foresight is a study that involves developing forecasts about the future in order to determine strategies for social policy, scientific activity or economic development. A typical way of conducting foresight is a debate between representatives of various environments - experts in their fields - and jointly establishing a consensus on what and how will develop further, what threats should be avoided, what phenomena require appreciation. Foresight studies provide a description of technological culture and trends noticeable in it. Such studies reflect social expectations and are often used as a basis for creating educational or economic policies.
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Do the smallest entrepreneurs use digital technologies in running their businesses? This is discussed in the 8th edition of the report by Bank PEKAO SA on the situation of micro and small companies based on a survey conducted among nearly 7 thousand Polish enterprises. The results regarding digital technologies in companies were developed by DELab UW.
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Authors tackle the problem of digital ecosystems and the place of humans within them from various vantage points. From conceptual maps of directed human and digital hardware interfacing to analyzes of influences digital ecosystems exerting on existing social and economic communities–we have still only touched on the variety and complexity of human and digital world interplay. However, we believe, and hope the readers of this anthology agree, that it consists of a good representation of areas that need to be addressed and analyzed if we are to understand the significance of digital ecosystems.
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Our lives are increasingly entwined with digital technologies. We use them to perform everyday activities: we check the weather forecast and timetables, order a taxi and pizza, listen to music, pay bills, make bank transactions. For most of us, functioning on the Internet is already something fundamentally natural and intuitive. Does this observation also apply to our contacts with public administration? Do they take place via new technologies? The aim of the report is to determine the current level of use of e-administration in Poland compared to other European Union countries and to formulate recommendations for its development. We focus on interactions between e-administration and citizens (G2C) and between e-administration and businesses (G2B). Based on Eurostat data from 2013–2015, we present the condition of e-administration in Poland against the background of two groups of European Union countries: EU15 (the so-called “old EU” countries that joined the Union before 2004) and NMS12 (New Member States, i.e. countries that joined the Union after the 2004 enlargement, except for Poland). We also discuss the most popular areas of interaction between citizens and businesses and e-administration (submitting documents in electronic form and e-tenders). We try to explain why in these areas citizens and businesses are more willing to enter into digitally mediated contacts with the administration. We also present exemplary solutions from the British portal, www.gov.uk. In the final part of the report, we present Poland’s place in the international rankings of the digitalization of public administration created by the UN and OECD. Efficient and user-friendly e-administration creates an important development impulse for the state. It saves citizens’ time, simplifies procedures and reduces the costs of administrative activities.
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Taking into account Polish accounting standards and the impact of tax law on accounting practice in Poland, this study attempts to explain why the actual expenditure of domestic enterprises on R&D may be underestimated and what consequences this entails for the implementation of innovations (identified by Eurostat in the CIS survey). The study also focuses on the effects of innovative activity of Polish enterprises, especially private and family-owned ones. We identify the reasons for Poland's low position in innovation rankings, discover and analyze private enterprises with a scientist on the management board or supervisory board, and debunk the myth of insufficient cooperation between business and universities. The presented evidence on the development of academic entrepreneurship in Poland (the involvement of academic staff - at least with a doctoral degree - in economic activity) makes a significant contribution to the current discussion on the cooperation between science and business.
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The aim of the report is to diagnose the state of advancement of Industry 4.0 in Poland based on a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the state of implementation of digital technologies in the field of Industry 4.0 in Polish companies. The report is addressed to representatives of the banking sector involved in creating schemes for financing innovations in the Polish economy, especially in the manufacturing sector; representatives of public institutions, including ministries, involved in stimulating the development of Polish industry; and representatives of Polish industrial companies.
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As part of the NGI Forward project, DELab UW supports the European Commission's Next Generation Internet initiative by identifying new technologies and social problems related to the Internet. Our team experimented with different text mining methods to discover trends and hidden patterns in selected types of online media.
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CoMobility was a transdisciplinary international research project in which we analyze attitudes and behaviors related to mobility, in particular services that are an alternative to private cars. In the co-creation process, we will identify barriers and opportunities in the dissemination of different modes of travel, as well as find actions that facilitate lasting change.
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