Specyfika usług infobrokerskich a kompetencje informacyjne infobrokera

The goal of the paper is to present the characteristics of the information broker service market in Poland. This is accomplished by observing fi rms and institutions working in the field of information sharing. The market has been characterized as having informatology features. The author divides the fi rms belonging to this sector into two groups: the fi rms with defined info-broker activity and the ones with the competences of the info-broker enterprise. Special attention is draw to the information competences required to provide the service in the info-brokering field. The author takes up the intent to define the scale of the market and to highlight the main players as well as to define the competition and the substitutes functioning in this field.