Team members: dr Bernadetta Zawilińska (Assistant Professor), dr Monika Musiał-Malago (Assistant Professor), dr Patrycja Brańka (Assistant Professor)
Project director:
dr hab. Magdalena Zdun, prof. UEK (Associate Professor)
Project budget:
21 750,00 zł
Project duration:
Internal program KUE – Potencjał
Data realizacji:
09.04.2020 – 31.10.2022
The research resulted in the preparation of scientific articles, including:
Team members: dr Karol Kaczorowski (Assistant Professor), dr Konrad Pędziwiatr (Assistant Professor), dr Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach (Assistant Professor), dr Damian Strycharz, Assistant Professor (from 2021)
Project director:
dr hab. Rafał Prostak, prof. UEK (Associate Professor)
Project budget:
29 650,00 zł
Financing institution:
Internal program KUE – Potencjał
Project duration:
09.04.2020 – 31.03.2023
The project’s products will be innovative content and teaching guidelines enabling the inclusion of knowledge about new technologies and their use in educational programs, created on the basis of the synthesis of the existing state of knowledge and the identification of challenges faced by entrepreneurs running digital businesses. In order to prepare teaching programs in the digital area, it is necessary to carry out research, the results of which will be included in the two main products of the project: the textbook “Doing business digitally” and the collection of case studies “How to do business in the digital era?”.
For this purpose, in the period March-December 2021, the team conducted:
Each partner prepares 2-3 cases, showing the key challenges related to running a digital business. For the Polish example of GetDresses, the important role of changing the business model (pivot) was indicated for the further activities of a start-up using artificial intelligence. Desk research analysis has shown that to date there are no available curricula and updated materials on digital entrepreneurship, or collections of case studies that could be used as best practices that can be developed in different educational institutions and shared among themselves. As the project is ongoing, full results are not yet available, but the current status of work is presented below.
Analyses to define a map of concepts and threads creating digital entrepreneurship led to the separation of the following main topics. For theoretical foundations, the following are described: introduction to Industry 4.0, disruptive technology, digital business and digital transformation in business, opportunities and threats of digital business, digital infrastructure, digital business strategies, functions (activities) of digital business, digital business ecosystem. For the part devoted to practical elements related to starting such a business, the following are explained: competences and resources needed to run a digital venture, the main elements of the business model, business plan, best practices, socio-materiality and skills needed to manage a digital business.
From the point of view of research, in addition to the theoretical and methodological content, important are identified cases of companies that, through the research tools used (interviews, analysis of company materials), present the company in a structured way not only from a formal perspective, but also from the identified success factors (or barriers) and challenges that they are faced with having to function in the digital world. Currently, 15 cases are being described from the countries of partner organizations, i.e. Italy, Austria, Ukraine, Spain, and Poland. As mentioned, the project is only in the initial phase of implementation and the research work is not finished, therefore it is not possible to present a complete list of results. However, they will constitute the basis for the next task of the project, which is to prepare the curriculum.
The research results will then be used to prepare educational programs in the field of entrepreneurship implemented at various faculties of the Krakow University of Economics, but also – due to the international nature – at other universities. This content will support, in addition to classic subjects devoted to the basics of entrepreneurship, also classes devoted to: innovative business models, competences in running a digital business, support for start-ups and development through an appropriately designed state support system. The subject of the project falls within the disciplines of management and quality science, economics and finance, and political and administration science. For the first one, it provides the basis for explaining how to design and manage a business using IT, for the second one, it shows the broader economic background, and for the third one: the role of the environment and public support for such initiatives.
Team members: dr hab. Jacek Klich, prof. UEK (Associate Professor), dr Agnieszka Pacut (Assistant Professor), dr Norbert Laurisz (Assistant Professor), dr Michał Żabiński (Assistant Professor), mgr Anna Mirzyńska, mgr Kamil Pilch
Project director:
prof. dr hab. Marek Ćwiklicki (Full Professor)
Project budget:
1 441 316,34 zł
Financing institution:
Erasmus+
Project duration:
07.10.2020 – 31.08.2023
External effects were also extensively analyzed, with particular emphasis on the effects generated in spatial management. In order to distinguish in detail between positive and negative external effects, their own division was proposed in the area of: spatial planning and spatial policy; real estate management; natural, environmental and agricultural conditions as well as technical infrastructure. The assessment of individual external effects took into account the issue of integrated order covering partial orders, including economic, institutional and political, spatial, social and environmental order. The analysis used the Delphi method, and the group of specialists included 12 experts from the Center for Research of Settlements and Urbanism and the Institute of Spatial Management and Urban Studies.
An additional goal of the project was to determine the potential and balance of renewable photovoltaic energy in selected urban structures in Poland (more about the research in: Cities, Suburbs and Peripheries in Theory and Empirical Research, Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning Special Issue, No. 10/2022 http://jssp.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/arhiva/vsn102022CSPTERen.html)
An innovative method of delimiting urban areas at risk of urban sprawl was proposed. Delimitations previously used in Polish spatial policy were also verified. Analysis also focused on how the urban sprawl phenomenon affects the state budget and national economic growth. Unlike many scientific studies in which urban sprawl is examined through the dispersion of population in cities, a more complex analysis was undertaken using the location of buildings. Underestimating the scope of urban sprawl results in the ineffectiveness of spatial policy due to the omission of specific areas in public intervention. This particularity is related to the fact that these are most often external areas – the furthest from the core city. It is in these areas that the highest urban sprawl costs occur. At the same time, these are areas in the early stages of spatial growth where, with the implementation of appropriate spatial policy, a coherent spatial structure can be maintained. Additionally, the research covered selected Polish cities and suburbs in terms of the potential and balance of renewable photovoltaic energy, as well as demographic changes. An important effect of the research was the assessment of the economic consequences of spontaneous suburbanization. The impact of protected areas in Poland on the level of development of units (municipalities) in their immediate surroundings was also assessed. New forms of using GIS field applications in the inventory and management of cultural heritage and tourist infrastructure were proposed. As a result of the conducted research, the “interdependencies” of external costs indicated by Scitovsky were made more specific by defining external effects in spatial management on their basis. Assumptions for identifying external effects, including those of the economy and spatial planning, were systematized.
Team members: dr hab. Piotr Lityński, prof. UEK (Associate Professor), dr inż. Mateusz Ilba (Assistant Professor), dr Marcin Semczuk (Assistant Professor), dr Piotr Serafin (Assistant Professor), Associate prof. Ph.d. Georg. Urban Planner Vasile Zotic, Lecturer Ph.D. Georg. Diana- Elena Alesandru
Project director:
dr inż. Artur Hołuj (Assistant Professor)
Project budget:
33 500,00 zł
Financing institution:
Internal program KUE – Potencjał
Project duration:
09.04.2020 – 31.10.2022
The result of the project is the monograph Urban Change in Central Europe. The Case of Kraków, Routledge 2022, edited by prof. Jacek Purchla. The book is a multidimensional and interdisciplinary case study of Krakow, focusing on the changes taking place in Central Europe over the last 30 years, and not on the city phenomenon itself.
Team members: dr hab. Krzysztof Broński, prof. UEK (Associate Professor), dr Dominika Hołuj (Assistant Professor), dr Andrzej Laskowski (Assistant Professor), dr Piotr Miodunka (Assistant Professor), dr Joanna Sanetra-Szeliga (Assistant Professor), dr Michał Wiśniewski (Assistant Professor)
Project director:
prof. dr hab. Jacek Purchla (Full Professor)
Project budget:
66 900,00 zł
Financing institution:
Internal program KUE – Potencjał
Project duration:
09.04.2020 – 31.10.2022
The starting point of the proposed project is the analysis of legislative statistics documenting the number, volume and other features of newly adopted legal acts – and an attempt to investigate the key factors responsible for legislative/regulatory inflation. After this, we shift the focus from the number of legal acts to their effects – to examine the extent to which the growing number of legal acts translates into real restrictions in the everyday activities of entrepreneurs. For this purpose, we will use data from the assessment of the newly adopted law (act) in terms of its expected impact on the economy and entrepreneurship, as well as the results of analyzes of the characteristics of the Polish legal resources (acts) using the text mining method using Python software, in cross-sections at the end of each parliamentary term in years 1997–2020 according to the method developed by the team. We will then analyze the strategies citizens use to overcome the problem of legislative/regulatory inflation. For this purpose, a survey of the opinions of citizens (including employees and entrepreneurs) will be commissioned, the results of which will allow to identify sources of information about legal acts, measure the perception of legislative/regulatory inflation, assess the awareness of the knowledge of law that respondents should know and discover strategies for coping with everyday problems. interactions, among others with bureaucracy taking into account the lack of knowledge of specific legal acts in conditions of legislative inflation. In addition, the project examines what legislative inflation means for the administrative justice system (tax matters).
The study addresses an important question: is the principle of ignorantia iuris nocet still valid in conditions of legislative inflation? If citizens are unable to learn about the relevant standards, they cannot rationally decide to follow them – indeed, a survey of the legal awareness of the Polish public has already indicated a staggering lack of knowledge about fundamental issues in everyday activities within the legal system.
The results of the study of the characteristics of the Polish legal system (acts) will be used to verify the hypothesis that sectoral regulations influence the business cycle in subsectors of the Polish economy, as indicated by studies of the relationship between regulations and institutions (investor protection) with lending and capital indicators. The results obtained in the project, including strategies used to deal with legislative/regulatory inflation, such as heuristics – rules allowing “good enough” decisions to be made in conditions of incomplete information, will help answer the question of how normative systems influence human behavior and economic entities. Also, the results on the key factors of legislative/regulatory inflation will help to develop the theory of regulation, which is currently based on the assumption that new law benefits the general public rather than pressure groups. So far, the theory has not been able to explain the abundance of regulations with negligible impact that is observed located in Poland.
Project director:
dr hab. Mateusz Pipień, prof. UEK (Associate Professor)
Project budget:
397 200,00 zł
Financing institution:
National Science Centre (NCN)
Project duration:
25.06.2020 – 14.06.2023
