Master Seminar WZ.IEZ-Z/dbfm/II1/MS
Semestr zimowy 2019/2020
Seminarium, grupa nr 2

1. Entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) - economic and institutional conditions of starting-up a business, SMEs' input into the economy at the international, national and regional levels, regional determinants of enterprise development

2. Sources of enterprise financing – market sources of financing and funding (informal investors, debt financing, equity capital, creative sources of financing); public sources of financing (loan funds, guarantee funds, grants, public aid for entrepreneurs)

3. SME support policy – rationale, funds and measures of the European Union, evaluation of public support measures for SMEs, management of support programs, institutions of business environment (technology and science parks, business incubators, innovation relay centers, industrial associations and chambers of commerce)

4. Industrial clusters – cooperation and competition among SMEs, the impact of clusters on the competitive advantage of enterprises

5. High-technology industries and creative industries (culture, entertainment, media, engineering and design, software development); technology firms

6. Technology transfer and diffusion in SMEs

7. Regional and local development; strategies of regional and local development

8. Firm growth – determinants of firm growth, high-growth firms (gazelles) - specificity and economic importance

9. Academic entrepreneurship – establishing and developing innovative enterprises by academics

10. SME internationalization – rationale, strategies, methods, impact on the competitive advantage, firms "born global"

11. Information and consulting for SMEs

12. Change management and corporate restructuring (turnaround) - spin-off, outsourcing, lean management, reengineering

The credit for the second semester of the seminar is based on submitting the entire theoretical part (at least two theoretical chapters) and methodology of empirical research by the end of the winter semester of the academic year 2017/2018, i.e. by February 23rd, 2018.