Cooperation between science and business as source of development of polish economy

Abstract

Modern economy increasingly depends on various forms of cooperation between enterprises, organisations of public or social nature1 as well as between enterprises and higher education institutions. The opening for business concerns both scientists, PhD researchers and students. The idea constitutes an attractive way of self-development for the people and for schools it creates new areas of market opportunities. Setting up new businesses on the basis of new scientific discoveries is an everyday phenomenon in the developed countries of the Western Europe. Thanks to so-called spin-off enterprises the profits are shared between the inventors and schools alike.