Rola specjalnych stref ekonomicznych w kształtowaniu struktury branżowej inwestycji przedsiębiorstw przemysłowych w Polsce
The role of special economic zones in shaping branch structure of industrial enterprises investment in Poland

Summary/Abstract: Special Economic Zones were one of the tools to accelerate the economic transition processin Poland. SEZs, being an attractive place to invest, significantly attracted investors to the economy,in particular foreign investors. Currently, the Special Economic Zones have been in existencefor more than twenty years in Poland, so it is worth asking – do they still meets the expectations ofdiversification of economic activity and modernization of the Polish industry, or do they contributeto perpetuates of the unfavorable structure of investment? The answers to this question became thesubject of considerations conducted in this paper. The working hypothesis was formulated as follows:special economic zones succeed not only to diversify economic activity in Poland, but to modernizeit by actually influencing the branch structure of industrial enterprises’ investment. In the first part ofthe article, special economic zones are presented as a place to invest, then investment outlays to theGross Domestic Product in Poland and other European Union countries were compared, indicating theappropriateness of using and maintaining instruments creating favorable conditions for investing inPoland. In the next part of the article, the author focused on the target object of the analysis, i.e. the assessmentof the impact of the branch structure of investment in Zones on the structure of investment inPoland. This assessment was based on the comparative analysis of the structure of investment outlaysin economic zones and outside the zones (in years 2010–2015), using structural similarities indicatorsand selected divergence indicators.

• Details
• Contents