INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY - HOW DO WE PROTECT INNOVATIONS? (Wlasnosc intelektualna i przemyslowa: jak chronimy innowacje?)

The significance of innovativeness and intellectual capital for the future development of the country is recently widely discussed in Poland. Simultaneously, not much attention is devoted to study of such fundamental area for economy as intellectual and industrial property. In the present study, the author presents the main challenges and problems concerning the protection of intellectual property in Poland.