40% of the companies cooperate with international companies, and 21% of them have strategic clients in this segment.

• A healthy environment for start-ups was made possible thanks to Government support and academic incubators, which employ over 150,000 people and have an annual turnover of PLN 28 billion.
• The Łukasiewicz Research Network is the third largest research network in Europe. 
• The Polish R&D sector is developing dynamically, boasting:
• 5,800 registered research facilities,
• A 66% increase in research activity since 2014
• 62,700 people employed externally by research and development centres
• the doubling of R&D spending between 2012 and 2018
• There are over 260 Polish companies working on AI solutions 
• Polish universities have published 12,000 studies on AI

Immense potential

• Leader in the CEE region in terms of growth rate and GPD per capita.
• Great expertise in programming, thanks to the talented and well-educated employees.        Polish experts  took third place in the global HackerRank developer ranking.
• Poland attracted the most Venture Capital investments in the CEE region.
• Microsoft and Google chose Poland, investing one billion and 2 billion USD respectively in building their databases in Warsaw.
• Warsaw was ranked 6th in the European Cities of the Future ranking for 2020/21.
  
  

Leaders among Polish start-ups

Source: ‘Why Poland’ a PAIH publication

• Booksy - one of the world's largest platforms for scheduling beauty salon appointments. It has already secured $ 118.8 million in funding. 
• Brainly - a social learning platform visited by over 340 million users; it raised USD 148.5 million from investors.
• Docplanner - one of the largest platforms in the world that connects patients with doctors. The start-up has so far obtained $ 140.5 million in funding from investors.