Members of the DELab UW team have prepared a list of instruments for the Digital Affairs Council at the Ministry of Digital Affairs that serve to systematically support digitalization in Great Britain and Germany. The documents constitute a concise overview of various good practices used in the analyzed countries by government institutions and are an inspiration for creating effective tools that will support Polish digitalization. Below we present selected conclusions of the conducted analysis. The experience of both analyzed countries indicates the need to perceive digitalization as a multi-dimensional phenomenon from which it is impossible to abstract individual processes, administrative departments or economic sectors. Both German and British digitalization strategies are examples of documents that comprehensively encompass changes occurring under the influence of new technologies in the economy and society. In order to take effective actions, it is necessary to take into account the connections occurring, for example, between the changing nature of many professions under the influence of automation, the education system, new solutions tested by entrepreneurs and the need to support experimental initiatives and employee competences to fully use and implement them. In addition, there is a noticeable trend of the administration striving to guarantee the most far-reaching opportunities for the exchange of experience and knowledge: both in the form of advisory bodies bringing together representatives of various groups of entities (business, science, administration, non-governmental organizations), as well as supporting the creation of places that guarantee space for innovation, in which cooperation could take place at the local level. Innovative initiatives, individuals or enterprises can also count on government financial support programs in both countries in the form of loans, grants or scholarships. Financial support for research, science and innovation by governments goes hand in hand with creating conditions conducive to grassroots creativity. Without the implementation of activities such as sharing public data or adapting teaching to new realities, funds allocated for systemic support for digitization would not bring such good results. Hence, it is necessary to emphasize the need for a holistic perception of the digital revolution taking place in the world.
- Collaborators:
- Maciej Sobolewski
- Authors:
- Dr. Joanna Mazur
- Marlena Syliwoniuk
- Robert Rozen
Based on the review of the literature and the collected data, an original BMMI Business Model Maturity Indicator was constructed and used as an explanatory variable in the study of the determinants of business model maturity. The ANOVA test was used to determine the differentiation of business model maturity between groups of enterprises: start-ups and scale-ups and between R&D and Non-R&D groups. The OLS estimation was used to examine the impact of the commercialization process, availability of financing sources and the structure of intellectual capital (organizational, relational (partnership), human) on shaping the maturity of the business model, which allowed for the verification of the research hypotheses formulated in the study.
- Authors:
- Dr. Agnieszka Pugacewicz
- Anna Białek-Jaworska
- Renata Gareyelczyk
The aim of the article is to try to explain the reasons for the growing savings of enterprises in the era of financialization. The International Monetary Fund indicates a significant increase in financial assets accumulated by enterprises in the most influential countries in the world. In Poland, since 2007, savings of enterprises have been growing steadily from 9,1% of GDP in 2007 to 17,1% of GDP in 2012, while in 2013, according to the Central Statistical Office, they slightly decreased relative to the national product, to the level of 15,8% of GDP (CSO 2013, 2015).
- Authors:
- dr hab. Anna Białek-Jaworska
This study is a continuation of the report entitled "Macroeconomic aspects of the importance of the pharmaceutical sector for the Polish economy", prepared by the DELab UW team in May 2015. The estimates presented therein lead to the conclusion that the pharmaceutical sector is an important element of the economic system, and more importantly, it is a sector with a large development potential and impact on other sectors, employment and the state budget. The study aims to assess the long-term effects of price regulation of reimbursed medicines on the state of this sector.
- Authors:
- Dr. Agnieszka Pugacewicz
- Michal Przybylinski
- Lukasz Tanajewski
The purpose of this article is to present a practical application of an original methodology for analyzing higher education costs and the sources of their financing in an attempt to investigate underfunding of these costs according to form of ownership (public and private) and type and educational profiles, the size of the university (by the number of students), focusing on the education of part-time and full-time studies.In particular, it concerns applying in practice an author's methodology for assessing the adequacy of the cost-intensity of studies, used by Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MSHE),as well as a Least Squares estimation of determinants of financing the higher education costs level by grants from the state budget and fees charged for educational services with characteristics of education processes taken into account.The analysis is based on data concerning the cost of education,collected at public statistics level, based on forms like the F‑01 / S on revenues, costs and financial results of universities, the S‑10 about higher education as at November 30thand the S‑12onscientific scholarships, postgraduate and doctoral studies and employment in universities.
- Authors:
- dr hab. Anna Białek-Jaworska
The report presents the results of a pilot study of the determinants of the development and maturity of business models of Polish start-up companies on a sample of 51 companies, taking into account the role of export in their life cycle. In order to capture differences in shaping the maturity of business models, it is important to adopt criteria defining the specificity of the companies studied. In the pilot study, a priori a distinction was adopted based on the time of conducting business activity. The youngest ventures, i.e. those that have been operating on the market for a maximum of three years, were classified as start-ups. Companies that have been on the market for more than 3 years were grouped in the scale-up subsample. The definition of scale-up companies does not refer to the growth potential of companies, but only serves to distinguish the time of the company's existence on the market.
- Authors:
- dr hab. Anna Białek-Jaworska
- dr hab. Renata Gabryelczyk
Macroeconomic analysis of the Polish pharmaceutical sector indicates a contribution of around 1% to GDP, or over PLN 15 billion (2013). This value includes both the direct impact of producers and the impact of their suppliers and final recipients. The pharmaceutical industry directly employs 22 people, but indirectly over 100 jobs depend on it. It is characterized by relatively higher than average human capital in the economy and higher productivity. Hence, wages in this sector are also relatively higher. It is also particularly important for local labor markets, as many production plants are located in smaller centers with a high unemployment rate. The pharmaceutical industry has a growing share in exports, amounting to 1,7% (2014). Imports of pharmaceutical products still exceed exports, but this difference has been systematically decreasing since 2012. After taking into account indirect and income effects, this sector generates revenues to the state budget in the amount of PLN 2,4 billion (2013). The pharmaceutical sector also has a significant contribution to the innovativeness of the Polish economy. More than 7% of expenditure on research and development comes from this sector. The development of the domestic pharmaceutical industry, necessary to cope with international competition, depends on the use of new technologies, including biotechnology. This requires an increase in funds for investment and building the research and development sphere. The study was conducted by DELab UW experts in cooperation with the Polish Association of Pharmaceutical Industry Employers.
- Collaborators:
- Polish Association of Pharmaceutical Industry Employers
- Authors:
- Dr. Agnieszka Pugacewicz
- dr hab. Michał Przybyliński, prof. UŁ
- Dr. Lukasz Tanajewski
According to the announcements of the European Commission, in the coming years, European companies will start to operate in the context of the Digital Single Market (DSM). The consequence of introducing DSM will be, among others, the lifting of national restrictions on transactions made via the Internet, and consequently - easier access to new markets and customers. In other words, entrepreneurs from EU countries will be exposed to the world arena and will face global competition. The success of Polish entrepreneurs - even those who have been successfully operating on the local market for a long time - will depend on many factors, one of the key ones being the level of digitization. Will Polish companies - especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) - be able to take advantage of the development opportunities related to the introduction of DSM.
- Authors:
- Dr. Habil. Katarzyna Śledziewska, prof. UW
- dr hab. Renata Włoch, prof. UW
- Damian Ziębiński
This volume of the proceedings of the Digital Humanities Digital Ecosystems Conference, which was held in Warsaw in 2015, is a contribution to this kind of study.
- Authors:
- Wioletta Miskiewicz
- Natalia Juchniewicz
The paper aims to identify the determinants of the exports in high-technology sectors (HT) of Visegrad countries (the Visegrad four, V‑4: Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary) and the core member states of the European Union (EU). Based on the augmented gravity model, we estimate the regressions on panel data of the bilateral export flows of the EU15 and V‑4 with the rest of the world in 1999–2011, by employing Poisson pseudo-maximum-likelihood (PPML) estimator. The comparison of the estimations of the overall export flows with the estimates explicitly done for high-tech sectors allow us to outline the main characteristics of the existing gap in high-tech export performances of the EU 15 and V‑4. Namely, estimation results find that while for the EU15 the export flows increase with similarity in physical and human capital accumulation of the trade partners, for V‑4 human capital accumulation appears less significant and instead of similarity, the difference in physical capital stock increases export flows.
- Authors:
- Dr. Habil. Katarzyna Śledziewska, prof. UW
- Tinatin Akhvlediani
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