Elaborated in 2008 as part of the new industrial policy, the concept of smart specialisation has quickly become of key importance for the EU 2020 innovation strategy. New activities are to be nominated at the regional level that aim at exploring and discovering new technological and market...

Interest in territorial forms of organisation of production is currently at its peak, both among researchers striving to describe and explain various phenomena and among practitioners - representatives of authorities, entrepreneurs or experts involved in developing the idea. On this basis, the...

This study, commissioned by the OECD and supported by the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure and Development, delves into the landscape of entrepreneurship education and start-up support in Poland's Wielkopolska and Kujawsko-Pomorskie regions. Assessing practices at six universities, it reveals...

This report reviews existing financial education initiatives in Poland, including their coverage and effectiveness when possible. Based on OECD analysis of available research and taking relevant international good practices into account, it identifies financial literacy needs and gaps in...

The National Strategy for Financial Education for Poland and its first implementation roadmap will provide guidance to national stakeholders involved in financial education in Poland over the seven following years from its adoption. The proposal for a National Strategy was developed through a...

Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its...