Knowledge Based Firms from Central and Eastern European Countries: A Comparative Overview of Case Studies

Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship and Opportunities in Two Polish Industries

“…As such, software firms are mostly "knowledge customizers," adapting IT solutions invented elsewhere in the world to the needs of Polish customers, rather than "knowledge creators." Many specialize in producing customized software solutions for clients from a particular industry (e.g., banking), using platforms developed by large multinationals such as Microsoft, Oracle or SAP (see Woodward et al, 2010Woodward et al, , 2011 foreign-owned and export-oriented.…”

Innovation Systems and Knowledge-Intensive Enterpreneurship: A Country Case Study of Poland

“…Similarly, a fair amount of material has been published on the National Innovation System in Poland (e.g., Kubielas, 2006;Górzyński et al, 2006). However, little research has been done at the intersection of these two areas: Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship (KIE) in the ECE countries (some exceptions include Radosevic et al, 2010;Woodward et al, 2010Woodward et al, , 2011. This paper focuses on an area of entrepreneurship which appears to be both underdeveloped and underresearched in the ECE context, but which is of particular importance for the modernization of these economies: knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE), or new firm creation in industries which are considered to be science-based or to use research and development (R&D) intensively.…”