Creativity, beside knowledge and innovation, is a significant determinant of the growth of modern economies. It is the potential of non-materialistic resources on which depend economic successes of whole regions as well as of business entities functioning in them. Non-materialistic resources are difficult for diagnosis owing to their attributes and a difficulty appears among researchers of the presented phenomena in interpreting the applied methods and the analysis of obtained research results. However, all the time attempts are made to describe economic components of this type because theorists as well as experienced experts of economic life prove, in their numerous publications on the problem, that the significance of these resources for the development is unquestionable.There was made an attempt to study the organizational climate of higher education institutions as determinants influencing creative attitudes among young people, so desirable in today's economy. The main objective of the research was: Using scientific procedures and using the appropriate methodology examined and recognized in current state of organizational climate of universities and its impact on the development of students creativity. Considerations were the basis for the formulation of the research hypothesis: The higher and more advanced level of organizational climate focused on creativity, the higher the level of creativity among students, who as part of the intellectual capital is a key factor in the development of micro-and macro-region. In order to verify this objective and the research hypothesis, tests on a group of 232 students from the University of Szczecin, West Pomeranian University of Technology and the Academy of Art was conducted.

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This paper presents the synchronisation of economic cycles of GDP and crude oil and oil products cargo volumes in major Polish seaports. On the one hand, this issue fits into the concept of sustainable development including decoupling; on the other hand, the synchronisation may be an early warning tool. Crude oil and oil products cargo volumes are a specific barometer that predicts the next economic cycle, especially as they are primary sources of energy production. The research study applies a number of TRAMO/SEATS methods, the Hodrick–Prescott filter, spectral analysis, correlation and cross-correlation function. Noteworthy is the modern approach of using synchronisation of economic cycles as a tool, which was described in the paper. According to the study results, the cyclical components of the cargo traffic and GDP were affected by the leakage of other short-term cycles. However, based on the cross-correlation, it was proved that changes in crude oil and oil products cargo volumes preceded changes in GDP by 1–3 quarters, which may be valuable information for decision-makers and economic development planners.

The article concerns the verification of links between the energy intensity of public urban transport, regional economic development and urbanisation in the light of sustainable development challenges and club convergence processes. Three research questions were formulated in the article: (1) Does the regional economic development of voivodeships affect the energy intensity of public urban transport? (2) Does urbanisation shape energy consumption patterns in public urban transport (and are there agglomeration effects)? (3) Does the level of urbanisation of voivodeships depend on their regional level? The study covered 16 subregions of Poland from 2010 to 2020. A spatial dynamic exploration of the relationships between energy intensity patterns of public urban transport and the phenomenon of urbanisation and regional economic development was carried out. Panel models of vector autoregression and panel causality testing were used. The influence of the economic development of regions and the level of urbanisation on energy intensity patterns of public urban transport was confirmed. The link between economic development and the process of urbanisation was identified. An additional effect was noticed (novelty knowledge), i.e., there is a delayed club convergence between voivodeships in the area of energy intensity of public urban transport, regional economic development and urbanisation (polyconvergence).

zeSzyty naukoWe uniWerSytetu SzczecińSkiego nr 871 problemy tranSportu i logiStyki nr 30 2015 agnieszka gozdek 1 FunkcJonoWanie tranSportu goSpoDarczego W polSce po WStĄpieniu Do unii europeJSkieJ Streszczenie W artykule przedstawiono problematykę funkcjonowania transportu gospodarczego w Polsce po 2004 roku, tj. po wstąpieniu Polski do Unii Europejskiej. Omówiono przeobrażenia strukturalne rynku transportowego z uwzględnieniem regulacji prawnych UE. Przedstawiono rozwój oferty przedsiębiorstw TSL. Dokonano analizy wielkości przewozów w latach 2004-2013, wykorzystując dane statystyczne Głównego Urzędu Statystycznego oraz Eurostat.