Creating-entrepreneurial-mindset

S.BadowskaAn academics’ propensity to cooperate with business may be associated with researchers’individual experience of being an employee in any business organization.Basing on the results (fig. 7), it was evident that most scientists had got almost no experiencein practical work for companies as an employee. Only 1 out of 20 respondentshad been working for an enterprise for more than5 years. The next respondent confirmedthat had been employed by a company for 1-3 years. 7 per 20 (35%) respondentshad been employed for shorter than 1 year during their professional lives and theremaining 5 scientists had got completely no experience in working for any company.Such limited experience of being employees could have led to the lack of understandingof business functioning. In such a situation researchers had not got an occasion tounderstand how business had been run, how and why the enterprise had existed on themarkets, what procedures and principles had been applied in companies. For most ofresearchers the inner functioning of business is still the terra incognita. Most of Polishscientists start their professional careers just after graduating from universities. Themajority of them haven’t got any employment agreements, some of them have neverbeen in any company at all during their professional careers. It influences a lack ofcommon language with business and understanding its perspective.In spite of limited employment experience most tested scientists had got experiencewith business generally. Most of Pomeranian researchers had been involved in cooperationsomehow. 71% of respondents confirmed that had been cooperating with anycompany during the survey was carried out. It is also significant, that such cooperationhadn’t been occasional or accidentally. 57% of academics had known other 5 or morepeople around them who had been a scientist involved in business cooperation. 7% ofresearchers had known at least 3 scientists who were in business contacts, the next 22%of respondents had known at least 2 such researchers. Only 7% of researchers hadn’tknown any scientists around themselves who were scientists involved in business. So,the results were quite optimistic. The cooperation between science and business seemsto be quite common at local level. This mutual collaboration was frequent and scientistswere pretty active in the business contacts.Are you cooperating with any companynow?yes71%Do you know any other preople around you who arescientists ivolved in business cooperation?1 person7%2 people22%3 people7%no29%I don'tknow anyof them7%5 peopleor more57%Fig. 1. Current scientists’ cooperation with business123