Science, Business and Universities

Part I - Business Activities: Relationships and Cooperation 1. Building knowledge-based economy on basis of research and development in fields of science and business Katarzyna Zak 2. Creating conditions for conducting business activity through collaboration between enterprises and business environment institutions Izabela Rogalska and Damian Opalach 3. Open innovation-driven business processes of crowdsourcing in Internet markets Malgorzata Dolinska 4. Cooperation between enterprises seen as opportunity for increased innovativeness Agnieszka Peszko and Alexandra Horobet 5. Knowledge Diffusion Centers - Krakow as Example of Integrator of Modern Business Services Slawomir Ziolkowski and Iwona Gawron 6. Inter-organizational relationships and entrepreneurial orientation: investigating their impact on firm performance Rafal Kusa, Marcin suder and Ilona Baumane-Vitolina 7. Multidimensionality of communication in context of science-business proximity in clusters Barbara Szymoniuk and Stanislaw Skowron Part II - Creating Entrepreneurship: Role of Universities 8. Analysis and Development of Competencies of Faculty Innovation Brokers. Evaluation and Measurement Methods Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, Arkadiusz Szmal, Marzena Staszkiewicz, Wojciech Kowalik and Dominik Kowal 9. Educating Successors of Millennial Generation as Area of Cooperation Between Universities and Polish Family Businesses Mariola Dzwigol-Barosz 10. Shaping Relationships with Business Environment in Entrepreneurial University Izabela Czaja and Tomasz Kafel 11. University-Business Cooperation: Cross-Case Analysis of Selected European Union Countries Joanna Duda, Vanda Marakova and Anna Wolak-Tuzimek 12. Technological Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial University towards Greater Effectiveness of Business-Science Cooperation Ewa Badzinska and Beata Mrugalska 13. Functioning challenges of spin-off companies in innovation ecosystem of Polish universities Dominik Kowal and Arkadiusz Szmal 14. Knowledge and skills gained during studies as factor when preparing to running one's own business - cross country analysis Tomasz Bernat, Aleksandra Gasior, Dyong Cong Doanh, Alejandro Valencia Arias, Parulkumari Bhati and Petr Novak 15. Trust in knowledge sharing among university students in Poland Malgorzata Budzanowska-Drzewiecka and Maciej Teczke