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Innovation plays an important role in shaping the competitive advantage of enterprises. The purpose of innovation is to make a business stand out in a group so that it is noticed and appreciated by the customers. The aim of the research was to assess the transfer of technology, which can be defined as the co-operation between the scientific environment and the industry in the Kujawy-Pomorze region. The research findings were used to answer the fundamental question regarding the scope of cooperation between the industry and the scientific environment. Forty-three entrepreneurs from the Kujawy-Pomorze region took part in the survey. The questions referred to achieving innovation in the companies and their view on co-operation with universities. The entrepreneurs observed that the current lack of co-operation between the private sector and universities can be attributed to little or no initiative of the latter. The scarce number of innovative solution patents purchased from universities and R&D centres supports this claim. Most of the respondents maintain that the existing offer presented by the universities and R&D centres do not meet their requirements. What is more, 80% of those polled claimed that graduates are unprepared to undertake professional duties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In article were presented to the results on the population voivodship. Kujawskopomorskie in terms of residence and age groups and to make an analysis of the potential States-wództwa Kujawsko-pomorskie measured level education in the years 2000-2009. Level of education has been identified by the number pupils and students, the number of higher education graduates number, the number graduates taking their first work and with the level gross salaries in the agreement at all levels of education and training by the Central Statistical Office. In the work was used counters dynamics phenomena: Absolute and relative increments values and dynamics indices: Individual and agregatowe. It is therefore appropriate planning so as to ensure more effective use stock of human capital in the direction changes in the development local. Regional strategies should be directed to full ye-use local resources, including human capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]