Business Incubators in Poland

Abstract

The paper focuses on ten years of development of business incubators in Poland. The first concepts of incubators appeared independently in 1990. Totally, since the beginning of nineties 64 incubators have been established. from among which 44 are stili acted at the beginning of 2001. In all Polish business incubators there operated approximately 1077 entities creating 6503 jobs Over 700 firms, creating 3200 jobs have already left incubators and they develop very dynamically. Development of business incubators and other institutions of economic support is a success of local societies and persons directly connected with particular initiatives. Such institutions contribute to a new quality into local environment, activate local society, transferring new experiences and external support, and most of all assisting people in realising their business plans.