Challenges of modern cities. Wrocław as a city of culture, science and innovation Cover Image

Wyzwania współczesnych miast. Wrocław jako miasto kultury, nauki i innowacji
Challenges of modern cities. Wrocław as a city of culture, science and innovation

Author(s): Anna Mempel-Śnieżyk
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: human capital; cultural facilities and centers; quality of life; science and innovations; business supporting institutions

Summary/Abstract: The first part of the paper focuses on the cities and challenges they face. The challenges of modern metropolis are the broad issue concerning both sustainable development, environmental issues, international cooperation and others. The article focuses on the attractiveness of cities from the point of view of investors, including foreign ones, the ways to stop highly skilled human capital in the citiy, as well as the ways to attract it from the outside. The article presents the example of Wrocław as cultural, scientific and innovative city and attempts to identify the problems faced by the city in the context of changes taking place in the global economy. The author also underlines the trends of pro-innovation Wrocław. To this end, the qualitative methods are applied in the article, which allows to broaden knowledge concerning the examined phenomena, the literature study of available works and reports on the systematization of knowledge.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 408
  • Page Range: 159-171
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish