Foreign Investment of Hi-Tech Enterprises as the Source of Knowledge Transfer to the Region Opolskie Voivodship Case Study
Foreign Investment of Hi-Tech Enterprises as the Source of Knowledge Transfer to the Region Opolskie Voivodship Case Study

Summary/Abstract: Article’s aim is the critical analysis of the literature and case study of the knowledge transfer issue into Opolskie Voivodship by foreign investment of the hi-tech sector. To illustrate such undertaken problemthe role and a place of knowledge transfer and high technologies sector as the factor having an impacton development of the region was discussed. Enterprises—foreign investors—are the source of theknowledge for human capital of the region, and because of that for enterprises of the region. There alsowill be pointed the practical example from Opolskie Voivodship, at the base of knowledge transfer by hi-tech enterprise into Opolskie Voivodship. After such stated analysis it is possible to state that foreigninvestment of hi-tech sector and knowledge transfer to region being their consequence, constitute actualfield of scientific interests. As the pro-innovative action it is simultaneously the field of the mutual co-operation of hi-tech sector and regional economy. Interactions of these subjects are important not onlyfrom the point of view of mutual benefits, such as knowledge transfer by the side of regional economyand economic benefits, including those connected to regional human capital, by the side of hi-tech sec-tor. Thus foreign investment of that sector can be pointed as the source of innovation, know-how andknowledge transfer, but also as the engines of social and economic changes in the region.

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