Kwiek, Marek2015-11-032015-11-032015Innovative Europe. Fostering Innovation Ecosystem Conference. European Solidarity Center,Gdańsk, Poland Gdańsk, October 28, 2015.http://hdl.handle.net/10593/13983There are many reasons why Polish universities need further reforms – but weak university-business links figure out prominently. The snapshot picture is as follows: Polish universities are self-centered, inward-looking,semi-feudal and hierarchical, too much collegial and not managerial enough. What is needed today: to encourage a good institutional climate for stronger university-business links, academic entrepreneurialism, and cooperation with the outside (extra-mural...) world. Western European university governance and funding models are to be applied: no more „Polish exceptionality”; Western European solutions which work are the key. More learning is needed – no time for a national trial-and-error approach. Succesful Western European models are useful, with national adaptations. More competition – for prestige, recognition, and research funding; better understanding of universities to bring science and business closer (the world of business is much better analyzed!). The two worlds – fundamentally different, though.en-USinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessuniversity-businessuniversity-business linksKudrycka reformscooperation with businessuniversity-business cooperationacademic entrepreneurialismPolish reformsPolish universitiesPolish higher educationPolish academicsArtykuł