Polish Agency for Enterprise Development - route to innovation

Brussels, 3 November 2006

The unique place in the Polish net for persons, who need reliable, easily accessible and useful in day-to-day's work set of short, ongoing information about innovation concerning entrepreneurship.

The Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PAED), responsible for supporting and dealing with innovations in SMEs, has launched the Innovation Website, which gives unique, full and reliable information about actions undertaken in the filed of innovation.

It is the source of information concerning access to new technologies and products of different areas, financing of innovation, initiatives in the field of academic entrepreneurship and other project and programmes supporting innovation development in Poland. On the website an entrepreneur may search required technology, as well as an inventor has the opportunity to offer commercial utilisation of his/her idea. On the Website you can find the list of innovation supporting organisations with short description, in particular technology parks and incubators. PAED publishes valuable documents, reports and current information and creates the opportunity to download interesting documents published by PAED and the European Commission's services. Two interactive lexicons explaining the meaning of many notions connected with innovation and intellectual property are the interesting and useful tools for visitors.

It has been created for persons, who need reliable, easily accessible and useful in day-to-day's work set of short, ongoing information about innovation concerning entrepreneurship. It is available at the address: http://www.pi.gov.pl/. The significance and impact of the Innovation Website is pointed out by the number of visitors - over 200 000 since launching the service previous year.

PAED is open for co-operation with any institution or natural person willing to share its knowledge and experience concerning innovation. Any enquires and information may be sent at the address pi@parp.gov.pl

http://www.pi.gov.pl