Poland: The Role of STPs in Creating Startup Community

Entrepreneurship is rising in almost every major city and region around the world. Dynamically operating startup communities form an indispensable part of cities all over the world. For several years, startup community has been growing. At this point starts the role of STPs that should serve as the real links between participants of the innovation process, including startup communities. In this paper the author discusses the role and actual position of technology parks in creating startup community. The author identifies the main problem of effective cooperation which is the lack of a tradition of cooperation between business entities and their environments in order to achieve better development effects. The main objective of this paper is to present exporting the STP concept into cities in the context of start-up community. In order to achieve this aim, the author grounds the approach on a series of theoretical mechanisms of creating startups communities and provides practical examples, using Poland as an example.