Creating-entrepreneurial-mindset

S.Badowskaown professional interests14own scientists' ambitions and aspirations12rules of the units8supervisors' ambitions and aspirations10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15Fig. 9. The scientists’ motives and themes for research work (multiple answer)The crucial elements of conducting research work by scientists were their motivesand themes of research. The motives had mainly depended on scientists’ individualpreferences. 70% of responses pointed that they had been developing their ownprofessional interests and 60% of respondents had been referring to their careers’ambitions and aspirations. It was also pointed that themes arise from the rules of theunit and had been usually indicated by employees of the SFI.results of their own research and the research work …20conferences and seminaries15business6other sourcesother universities and reserach institutionscolleagues and co-reserachers3330 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21Fig. 10. The inspiration sources for research at universities and R&D units (multiple answer)To establish a connection between business and academia it was worth identifyingthe factors influencing the decisions to choose the area of research by Pomerania scientists.A question was posed of a role of real industry problems as a common phenomenonfor scientists to inspire them to do their research work.As outcomes showed (fig. 5), the most common source of scientific research inspirationfor Pomeranian R&D staff was the results of their previous research (40% ofanswers). The second most popular one pointed by 40% of responses was informationand materials collected by researchers during their participation in seminars and conferences.It was significant that only 12% of respondents’ answers indicated the sourceof inspiration for research which had come from business - solely respondents of GUTand SFI. Such a source of inspiration was indicated by 4 out of 5 respondents of SFIacademic staff and 2 out of 7 respondents of GUT. The remaining answers were usuallyassociated with scientific circles. Generally Pomeranian academic staff got their121