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The report focuses on the regional system of innovation in małopolskie voivodeship (southern Poland). It presents the results of two empirical stages. The first stage was conducted using computer assisted telephone interviews (CATI) on the sample of 465 enterprises and 51 business support...

Life standard of local community determines the market absorbency, which can make up one of the determinants of local micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. The aim of the paper is the empirical verification of influence of local life standard in Southern Poland on small and medium-sized...

This article aims to present and analyze the European Union policy in favour of entrepreneurship as well as small and medium-sized enterprises (so-called fifth multiannual program) as well as the most important directions of activities of the Community for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the...

Regional environment creates a set of factors that can be called either stimulants or barriers to the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Local governments should remove barriers, transforming them into promoters. An important feature that has to meet both the national...

The practice shows that small and medium-sized enterprises have large difficulties in gaining funding from external sources for their development. These enterprises are strongly anchored in their regional environment, thus analysis of financial support is especially essential on a regional...

Small and medium-sized enterprises have large difficulties in gaining funding from external sources for their development. These enterprises are strongly anchored in their regional environment, thus analysis of financial support is especially essential on a regional level. The aim of the paper...