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The draft entitled Regulation of the Minister of Funds and Regional Policy on the granting of aid to
support innovation and process and organisational innovation under the regional programmes for 2021-
2027 - was submitted on 17.02.2023
Different institutions and instruments/programmes in Poland are supporting innovation:
– National Science Centre - scholarships for scientists.
– National Centre for Research and Development - InnoTech, KadTech, BroTech, Creator of
Innovation, "Support for innovative academic entrepreneurship", "Patent PLUS Support for
patenting inventions" programmes.
– Polish Agency for Enterprise Development - National Network of Innovation (orignal name
Krajowy System Usług, KSU), "Voucher for innovations", Loan for innovations, competition
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"Polish Product of the Future" .
– National Economy Bank - Technology Credit, National Capital Fund.
– Patent Office of the Republic of Poland - Internet Service Portal of the Patent Office.
– By the end of 2023, a Centre for Innovative Research (CBI Plus) will be established at the Medical
University of Bialystok (UMB). The project will contribute, among other things, to increasing the
innovativeness of the entire region, strengthening cooperation with entrepreneurs and
increasing the quality of scientific research in the field of prevention of civilisation diseases and
individualised medicine.
– In 2023, 100 jobs for innovators will be created at Łukasiewicz - Poznań Institute of Technology.
The new employees will join, remotely or on-site, teams conducting advanced research projects,
including those carried out in international consortia, such as under Horizon Europe.
– For students: The Kielce University of Technology has once again in 2023 rewarded the best
young innovators. In the 13th edition of the nationwide Student-Inventor competition, the
winners were teams from the Universities of Technology: Warsaw, Lublin, Krakow, Swietokrzyska
and the University of Silesia, amongst others, for a method and system for monitoring the vital
functions of an infant during sleep, based on a neural network; a method of obtaining new
nanomaterials for renewable energy sources. The main objective of the competition, which has
been organised at the Świętokrzyska University of Technology since 2010, is to encourage
students to create and develop an innovation-based economy.

Cluster 2

Czech Republic
Czech Republic has a National Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) which aims
to support innovation in various sectors. The RIS3 focuses on areas such as advanced materials, nano-
technologies and micro-technologies, biotechnologies, and advanced production technologies.

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The Polish Product of the Future is a competition organised annually by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PARP) and
the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR). Its aim is to identify and promote the most interesting and innovative
products that have the potential to achieve market success in Poland and abroad. In this competition, prizes will be awarded in three
categories: product of the future for entrepreneurs, product of the future for institutions of higher education and science and joint
product of the future resulting from cooperation between business and science. However, the jury may also decide to award special
prizes: for a young entrepreneur, for a product from the information and communication technology (ICT) sector and for eco-
innovation. The Polish Product of the Future competition is financed by European Funds from the Operational Programme Intelligent
Development (OPIR). It is held under the patronage of the Polish Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy, the Ministry of Development
and Technology and the Ministry of Education and Science

OPEN4U: intrOducing Practices in opEn innovatioN 4U - project number 2022-1-IT01-KA220-VET-000085295
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the
European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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