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 study focuses on the current state of ICT sector development in the modern economy of Ukraine. The analysis of major economic indicators dynamics and statistics is made at the level of national economy, ICT sector and ICT enterprises. The study of ICT enterprises is based on the unique dataset of 6.5 thousands enterprises that belong to the ICT sector according to the Ukrainian KVED1classification. The study discussesmajor indicators of ICT sector development: the share of ICT in totalGDP and output, total exports and imports, in total employment, consumer prices, number of business entities. The micro-level indicators describe total revenues and employment growth, fixed and tangible assets development, labor and total factor productivity levels. Thecomparison between ICT sector indicators and all firms average indicatorsis drawn. The correction is made to exclude holdings companies from the sample. Attention is paid to the indicators of Internet penetration in retail trade, number of Internet, mobile communication and cable users in the Ukrainian economy. The current Ukrainian government digital economy policy is described as a number of new initiatives (e-government, IT sector business climate improvement, digital skills development) that have been launched as part of vast reforms agenda of Ukraine.
- Authors:
- Iryna Nasadiuk
Smartphones accompany us in our daily lives, constituting one of the basic devices for communication, information exchange, data acquisition and entertainment. In the face of many quantitative studies devoted to smartphones and their users, this DELab UW report presents a qualitative approach to this issue. In the project carried out in the grounded approach, it was possible to map the practices of individual smartphone users around this device. The use of individual interviews allowed us to look at the issue of mobile technologies from a more personal, even intimate perspective, to learn about people's motivations for using new technologies, to understand the behaviors, expectations and consequences of implementing smartphones in everyday practices.
- Authors:
- Dr. Natalia Juchniewicz
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
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
In this study, embedded in the critical analysis of discourses, the author presents various discourses related to the impact of new technologies, especially digital ones, on work. He focuses on six discourses: (1) the end of work, machine work, technological unemployment. (2) "Washing out the middle" - growing or sustained demand for high skills and low skills, decreasing demand for mid skills, increasingly susceptible to machineization and algorithmization; (3) machines needed by people - people needed by machines. Work in a techno-human collective; (4) work in a social factory (work of the multitude), prosumption (5) "budding work" - a metaphor of a newly built house: we are at the foundations of the information society; (6) dispersed work.
- Authors:
- dr hab. Kazimierz Krzysztofek, prof. SWPS
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 Internet and digital technologies are changing our world. Diagnosing the gap in digital competences of Polish small and medium-sized enterprises should be the starting point for building recommendations regarding the use of modern information and communication technologies by SMEs. An assessment of the degree to which they use digital solutions against the background of European enterprises can help convince managers that digital competences are the basic determinant of the success of companies, and modern digital solutions simplify and accelerate decision-making and management processes (EDI and ERP systems), allow for more effective business analytics (cloud computing), simplify transactions (e-commerce or e-invoices), allow for building relationships with the company's environment (CRM systems, social media) or facilitate reaching new customers and entering new markets (e-commerce, CRM). The source of problems with implementing the above solutions is the failure of Polish entrepreneurs to notice their usefulness and the deficit of digital competences, especially intermediate ones, in human capital. For the purpose of assessing competencies, the DESI index was used in five main areas: connectivity, human capital, use of the Internet, integration of digital technology, digital public services. In the distinguished areas of digitalization, Poland's position was presented in the context of EU Member States, and then one of its components - "introduction of digital technologies" was analyzed in more detail. The DESI index of digital technology implementation consisted of such components as: electronic information exchange, social media, electronic invoicing, cloud computing, e-commerce. The conclusions concern the degree of digitalization of SMEs in the indicated areas and the reasons for the low position of Polish SMEs in studies analyzing the introduction of digital technologies in enterprises.
- Authors:
- Dr. Habil. Katarzyna Śledziewska, prof. UW
- dr hab. Renata Włoch, prof. UW
- Collaborators:
- dr hab. Renata Gabryelczyk
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