She completed her dissertation at the Warsaw School of Economics in 2010. Her recent research focuses on the Polish public research and development system. Her research interests concern aspects of regional and global innovation systems, development of new technologies, knowledge based economy; economic and technical problems of the knowledge and technology transfer from research institutions to industrial sectors. Sienkiewicz, Urszula, and Kijeńska-Dąbrowska, Izabela. Knowledge Creation and Commercialization Activities in Polish Public HEUs in the Area of Technical and Engineering Sciences. Knowledge Organization. 40(2), 136-146. 17 references.