POLISH TECHNOLOGY PARKS AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: ARE THEY EFFECYIVE?

The effective development of regions depends not only on the size of the national income, but also on the source of its origin. Differences in approach to the factors describing the competitiveness of regions and cities have evolved from a more general level in the direction of specialization, including both factors related to the quality of human capital and economic potential. Technology parks are an example of a high concentration of innovative human capital. In the past five years several new park initiatives were established in Poland. The activities of parks should be the development measured, for example, by employment growth in the regions, and innovativeness of companies. The main aim of the study is a multi-dimensional assessment of spatial differentiation in development of technology parks in Poland in terms of dynamics and identification the factors affecting the socio-economic development of cities and regions. The study used data from a project of PARP entitled "Benchmarking technology parks in Poland." The selected methods of multidimensional comparative analysis in terms of dynamics was selected to study the effectiveness of the parks.