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Marek Duda

Rzeszow Regional Development Agency

[email protected]

Digital solutions – Poland

16 January, 2019 Meeting in Fareham (Great Britain)

Maciej Chrzanowski, PhD

RUT, MECH Ltd.

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Index

• Example of existing solutions from

Podkarpackie Region

• Example of existing solutions from Poland

• Main barierrs

• Advantages of digital solution for start-ups

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Examples of digital solutions

• Examples of tools from Podkarpackie Region

Start in Podkarpackie

https://startinpodkarpackie.pl/

-access to information via a messenger - advisers and employees of Accelerator in a way

available for online questions - possibility of conversation

-After clicking on the messenger logo, also information about current events and timeline.

- Start Link Platform

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•Revas Academy of entrepreneurship (Revas – Akademia przedsiebiorczości)

https://www.revas.pl/pl/akademia/

Webinars on topics related to entrepreneurship, e.g. regulations, marketing, principles of

providing services – open for everyone for free.

https://www.revas.pl/pl/akademia/

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•Revas Industry specific business simulations (Revas – symulacje biznesowe)

https://www.revas.pl/en/

•Simulation is dedicated mainly for teachers from schools or universities with difference professions

for example travel agency, hair salon - .

•Simulations allow students to learn the secrets of running specific kind of business. Every

student plays a role of an entrepreneur, owner of a company, and makes decisions that all

owners struggle with in everyday life.

•The fact that students compete with the companies run by their classmates is an extra motivation.

•Students analyse the market to design an offer that will meet the needs of the customers, monitor

competitors’ activity and manage their company not only to be profitable but also to keep high

quality of their services, and satisfaction of both customers and employees.

•The simulation enables training of skills such as entrepreneurship, group work, analytical

thinking, making decisions under time pressure etc.

•Scope of decisions:

1. Buy necessary equipment

2. Hire workers & set their salary

3. Advertise traditionally and online

4. Choose suppliers

5. Set prices & discounts

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•Revas Industry specific business simulations (Revas – symulacje biznesowe)

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• Examples of tools from Poland

•Start-up Poland Development Fund Platform www.startp.pfr.pl

http://www.startp.pfr.pl/

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•Start-up Poland Development Fund Platform www.pfr.pl

http://www.pfr.pl/

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•Business Knowledge Platform (Law, Taxes) www.biznes.gov.pl

http://www.biznes.gov.pl/

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•Entrepreneur Assistant in Gdańsk (Asystent Gdańskiego Przedsiębiorcy)

https://przedsiebiorczygdansk.pl/

With the help of the assistant, we will get answers to the most important questions,

and we will follow the five steps needed to start the business.

https://przedsiebiorczygdansk.pl/

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•Best knowledge blogs for startups in Poland

•www.startupakademia.pl

•http://startuplife.pl/startup-krok-po-kroku/

•And many many more

http://www.startupakademia.pl/

http://startuplife.pl/startup-krok-po-kroku/

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Main barierrs

• The biggest barrier is the reluctance of people to use online services while supporting

their companies. It is difficult to motivate them to contact and educate through a computer.

With this kind of support, for example in the education of intellectual property, we saw that

almost none of the entrepreneurs wanted to use such tools. A lot of entrepreneurs came to

traditional workshops and only few of them using online chats or forums or online

education (e-learning).

• Online tools are prepared for the whole world at the international level and most of them

is available only in English. Not everyone can speak English, so that’s the reason why

some of startupers just don’t use it.

• The law is changing extremely fast. Most of digital solutions are updated regularly, but

sometimes these changes aren’t make on time so sometimes we just don’t get real

information that we need – some of these information might be just not up to date and

might give us wrong advices.

• A lot of articles are written in the language that is not understood for most of potential

users. Sometimes law rules are written with a legal language and that might cause that

people just don’t understand it correctly.

• Other issue might be, that all economic regions in Poland have their own potential.

That means that when we use advices for start-upers prepared for (for example Kujawsko-

pomorskie Region), doesn’t mean that it would be appropriate also for our region.

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Advantages of digital solution for start-ups

• Digital solutions will encourage people to take actions to create their own enterprises.

• People just don’t know what way should they go to make it and sometimes it might

be problematic to them to seek for these information in the offices. Some of them

don’t even know where to start to seek for those advices.

• When they will get that online, it will look much easier for them to start to take any

actions and we’re pretty sure that it will increase the interest with startups creativity and

more people might be able to “start living their dreams” – especially young people who

can’t live without new technologies.

Thank you!

Questions welcome

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