Prerequisites for Obtaining Scientific Degrees and Titles in Poland and Cooperation with the Socio-Economic Environment
Prerequisites for Obtaining Scientific Degrees and Titles in Poland and Cooperation with the Socio-Economic Environment

Summary/Abstract: Academic degrees and titles play a vital role in the way the higher education and science sectoroperates in Poland. However, at a time when cooperation between the academia and the socio-eco-nomic environment plays such a pivotal role, it is critical to assess whether the prerequisites forgranting degrees and titles provide incentives to such cooperation, or whether research careersoutside of the traditional academic realm (e.g. in companies) make them as appealing (in term ofobtaining degrees) as those pursued at universities or research institutes. The purpose of the articleis to determine whether the prerequisites for obtaining degrees and titles in Poland are conducive tothe development of cooperation between the academic sector and the socio-economic environment.The paper further investigates whether such prerequisites make scientific work conducted in coop-eration with the environment or even outside the academic sector as valuable from the point of viewof the possibility of obtaining degrees and titles, or whether, on the contrary, they serve the purposesof the academic sector only. The study utilized the dogmatic-legal analysis method. It establisheda correlation between the prerequisites for granting academic degrees and collaboration with thesocio-economic environment in the Polish legal order. The study determined that although sucha correlation exists, they vary with respect to different titles and degrees.

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