How the Universities of technology cooperates with SMEs on the example of Polish universities

Abstract

The fundamental aim of the study is to indicate how Polish universities of technology cooperate with enterprises belonging to the small and medium-sized enterprise sector. The study was conducted from the perspective of polytechnic schools. Given the goal indicated in this way, the key activities included obtaining an answer to the question regarding the scope, conditions, and quality of cooperation between small and medium-sized enterprises and technical universities. In-depth literature studies in the indicated research problem, own observations as well as conducting empirical research contributed to the formulation of detailed questions, the solution of which determined the answer to the main problem, which is to indicate how Polish technical universities cooperate with small and medium-sized enterprises on the example of Polish technical universities. The conducted research allowed to obtain an answer to the question concerning the motivating and limiting factors, including the cooperation of technical universities with small and medium-sized enterprises. This publication, constituting an empirical cognitive foundation, can be a starting point for further considerations on the increase in the importance and role of cooperation, as well as a better understanding of new challenges in the development of the modern economy. The paper focuses on showing the phenomenon of cooperation, systematizing this phenomenon in the theory of management, and also on presenting the results of own research along with the methods of its implementation. This paper is important to better understand the importance of collaboration between science and business and create new opportunities to develop areas of collaboration.