Abstract
The city of Wrocław is an important Polish center for creating innovations and modern technological solutions. In general, Polish innovation system is having problems with a lack of cooperation among different actors, a low level of commercialization and a weak uptake of technologies. Based on that, the objectives of this paper were set on the identification of the local innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities, the analysis of the current innovation system and the development of a community’s ecosystem theoretical concept. Currently, in Wrocław, many organizations are dealing with innovation. To assess the regional situation of the innovation system the ethnographic analysis was conducted. Each of the stakeholder segments was analyzed based on the resources, activities, value addition and value capture factors. The research showed a huge potential for creating an innovation ecosystem, however due to the variety of different activities, there is no common Innovation Ecosystem. Based on the analysis results, the Ecosystem Pie Model tool was used to create the ecosystem model concept. Research showed a huge potential for creating an innovation ecosystem. Therefore, Wrocław should aim to create a development policy framework that favors entrepreneurial innovation and will allow sustainable regional development.
Highlights
The shift towards sustainable development requires the enhancement of innovation
The capital of Lower Silesia region located in SE Poland, is an important Polish center for creating innovations and modern technological solutions
The provided analysis showed that the missing part of the local innovation system is the actor’s cooperation in creating and performing initiatives oriented on innovation − basically, each of the actors works based on its own rules and guidelines
Summary
The capital of Lower Silesia region located in SE Poland, is an important Polish center for creating innovations and modern technological solutions. The official population of Wrocław, the fourth Polish city in terms of population, in 2020 was 643,782 and estimated 1.25 million residing in the metropolitan area Wrocław is the third wealthiest city in Poland after Warsaw and Opole [1], having more than 126.3 thousand entities of the national economy. The GDP value in Wrocław is 86,968 PLN (19,454 EUR or 23,066 USD), where Polish GDP value is 51,776 (11,582 EUR or 13,732 USD) [2]. Due to the close distance to German and the Czech Republic borders, Wrocław and the Lower Silesia region are important export and import partners for these countries
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