Successful Enterprises as Means for Economic Growth – Comparative Study of Polish Regions

Volkmann, C. K., Tokarski, K. O., & Grünhagen, M. (2010). Entrepreneurship in a European Perspective: Concepts for the Creation and Growth of New Ventures. Springer Science & Business Media.

Poland is known worldwide for its delicious food and pristine green landscape. Today, Poland has the sixth largest economy in the European union. The GDP in poland is 1.051 trillion dollars and has been remained relatively steady since 2010. There is a fairly low unemployment rate at 6.2% in Poland compared to Canada's 6.9%. Positive aspects of their economy include their steady rate of growth for the last 25 years, their efficient use of resources from the European Structural funds and lastly the strong domestic demand for their exports. On the other hand, unfortunately Poland’s economy also suffers from many many negatives. The first negative is their political uncertainty. Poland’s political uncertainty falls mainly on the presidential

Its developmental and transformative qualities particularly on emerging global economies, has given great significance to the concept of entrepreneurship. The impact of entrepreneurship has more contributory value is most The concept of entrepreneurship has received significant global attention across the developed and developing countries due to its capacity to transform the economy (Le & Nguyen, 2009:867). The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (2011:8) revealed that there are approximately 400 million entrepreneurs across 54 countries operating start-up businesses. These countries are grouped into three stages of economic development driven by: factor, efficiency and innovation (GEM, 2009:5). This is based on the level of

This shows an influence on of the presence of cluster strategy as a specialization effect potentially leading to regional economic growth.

There are six arguments: First, regional development and uneven development can not avoid in capitalist economies. Second, it is necessary to improve with national policies; Third, the limitations, and failures of some systems result from the integration of social contradictions into national economic activities; Fourth, the response of the national grassroots and economy to imbalances; Fifth, understanding of the failure of early policy and continue to explore; Last, the capacity of socio-economic solutions to this problem also limited.

As we think about the role of entrepreneurship in terms of the economic growth, entrepreneurs make new organizations and new organizations,thus they create employment opportunities, based on the above explanation, they

It is a widely accepted fact that innovation creates new industries which drives the business cycle and provides the basis for sustained economic growth and prosperity of an economy (Schumpeter, 1961). Innovation is an evolutionary, systematic process which results from various associational interactions among a number of actors in a given region (Cooke & Morgan, 2000). Under the influence of theories for fiscal decentralization, regional innovation systems and industrial clusters are becoming more and more popular in various countries across the globe. Top-down devolution of power for policy design and implementation has been accompanied by bottom-up demands and regional

Map the current status of entrepreneurship in the country and identify country-specific entrepreneurship opportunities and challenges

According to divergent approaches is possible to improve regional growth rate using appropriate policy. However is really difficult understanding if changes of the regional growth rate are due to a policy or to other factors.

This study is continuation of the current project “Con‡ and Economic Growth in the Fedict

The intersection between globalization and local entrepreneurship, defined by specialists as “international entrepreneurship”, has started to receive more and more attention over the last two decades (Mathews and Zander, 2007, p. 395). Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a significant role in the global economy and have a big impact on incomes, outputs, and the employment sector.

Entrepreneurship activities support self-employment which in turn has an effect on the growth of productivity (Audretsch, 2007, p.64). A debate on whether nations should adopt the self-employment policy or strike a balance is always contented. Italy tried the self-employment model, and it proved to be inefficient for the development of the economy (Santarelli and Vivarelli, 2007, p.460). Entrepreneurship also plays a role in the early development of industries. It increases productivity through

In more recent research within this field, empirical evidence has encouraged a general acceptance of the phenomena of uneven regional development and that it is not something that can necessarily be evaded or eliminated, as it is a prevalent feature of capitalist development. Concerned with this perceived inevitability of regional uneven development, a multiplicity of theories to explain and

Some scholars have prepared a list of environmental conditions that may play a role in developing entrepreneurship in a country or

The government must structure its policies in such a way that it nurtures an entrepreneurial environment and allows effective opportunities for entrepreneurial firms to grow and make an impact towards national economic development. ”By focusing on existing, new and nascent entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship policy focuses on the change of process acknowledging the need to respect antecedents and consider future opportunities.” (Mitra, 2012, p.227)