Bezpośrednie inwestycje zagraniczne w przemyśle Polski: struktura… działowa i przestrzenna
Foreign Direct Investment in Industry in Poland: The Sectoral and Spatial Structure

Summary/Abstract: This paper seeks to analyse the sectoral and spatial structure of the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) to industry in Poland and to determine the extent of internationalisation of this sphere of the economy. Those issues are significant not only in cognitive terms, but they can also have implications for the country's economy, in particular for its economic policy. In the first step of the research an analysis was made of the total inflow of foreign capital to Poland in a dynamic approach, compared against the global situation. Next the structure of foreign investment in the various sections of industry was characterised on the basis of selected variables: the capital invested, the number of companies with foreign capital, and the employment generated. Then the spatial structure of the foreign capital inflow to the Polish industry was identified in two aspects: by region where investment was located and by the investors' country of origin. On the basis of the observed tendencies and regularities, an assessment was made of the role FDI plays in the Polish industry. The analysis was summed up by constructing an FDI internationalisation profile.

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