The document discusses Poland's Technological Fishing Pole Program, which aims to strengthen cooperation between businesses, universities, and research centers to increase R&D spending and commercialization of innovations. It proposes setting up a 300 million zloty fund in 2007 to provide financing throughout the innovation process, from research to implementation. An initial call for project proposals received over 700 applications seeking over 3 billion zloty in funding across various technology domains.

1. Technological Fishing Pole Program Strategic task under the Task Budget Poland: from „losing ground country” to „high performance country”* Professor Teresa Lubińska Secretary of State Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Poland President of the Interministerial Team for Advanced Technologies Sectors Development * EU – Report: European Innovation Scoreboard 2005 TrendChart, 2006 V Konferencja „ Uniwersytet dla przemysłu” – finansowanie współpracy 26 marca 2007 r. Uniwersytet Jagielloński

3. Low level of economic development in high technologies – outcome indicators 36 % USA 2% Poland 18% EU 15 40% Ireland % of export based on high-tech products Country

4. 0,34% 0,17% 1,08% 0,51% 0,76% 0,32% 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 Negative tendency on R&D expenditures as % of GDP in Poland 1991 - 200 6 0,0% 0,2% 0,4% 0,6% 0,8% 1,0% 1,2% %GDP total public private

5. Innovation parameters European Innovation Scor e board 2005 TrendChart, 2006 2,7 0,58% Poland 10,9 1,27% Czech Rep. 18,3 0,98% Hungary 133,6 2% EU15 No. of applications to European Patent Office per 1 m . inhabitants [2002] R&D / GDP [2004] Country

10. Technological Fishing Pole assumption data Des c ription Previous programs Proposed program Purpose of R&D funds General and not closely connected with commercialization For projects with high probability of commercialization Method of applications’ collecting Inflow of applications after the publishing of the competition Active search of leaders and projects Method of projects’ evaluation and selection List of experts of administrative unit at the central level Board composed of at least 2 experts, therein with patents implementation output

14. 722 Total 109 Others 10 Shipbuilding 11 Building engineering 13 Agriculture 14 Transport 14 Nanotechnology 14 Safety and Health at Work 18 Production process 23 Mechanics 30 Pharmacy 31 Electronic engineering 34 Medicine 35 Food Technology 45 Material engineering 46 Power industry 48 Environmental protection 51 Biotechnology 70 Chemistry 106 IT Number of projects Domain

15. Project Call for Leaders 1,0 0,65 0,45 0,25 0,11 - incomes from country sale 0,8 0,55 0,35 0,2 0,09 - export incomes 1,8 1,2 0,8 0,45 0,2 Total Turnover: 2011 r. 2010 r. 2009 r. 2008 r. 2007 r. in bln EURO 5 years prediction

16. Innovativeness monitoring indicators in Poland Międzyresortowy Zespół ds. Rozwoju Sektorów Wysoko Zaawansowanych Technologii Gross domestic expenditure on R&D as a percentage of GDP Number of new-established spin-offs companies – high-tech companies Annual increase of private sector expenditure on R&D in bln PLN Increase of high-tech products share in GDP Export of high technology products as a percentage of GDP Number of patent applications in PCT per million inhabitants