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Operators of the leading European chain stores also find the Metropolis attractive. In the heart of the Metropolitan Area alone there are over 40 large-floor-surface shopping centres and hypermarkets owned and managed by such operators and chain traders as: APSYS (France), AUCHAN / LEROY MERLIN (Auchan Group, France), ECE Projektmanagement (Germany), E.Leclerc (France), Carrefour (France), Castorama (United Kingdom), TESCO (UK), REAL/Praktiker/Media Markt (Metro Group, Germany), Obi (Germany), and IKEA (Sweden). The trading offer of the shopping centres is complemented by the supermarket chain stores run by such operators as: Jeronimo Martins (Portugal, Biedronka chain stores), Schwarz (Lidl chain stores, Germany), Kaufland (Kaufland, Germany), and Dansk Supermarked (Netto chain stores, Denmark). Like a magnet, the Gdańsk Metropolitan Area attracts foreign investors who establish their main business offices and branches of their parent companies here. At the close of 2007 over 3 thousand equity-based companies with foreign equity participation had their operations based in the area. TOWARDS INNOVATIVE ECONOMY The Gdańsk Metropolitan Area and the whole voivodship are in the lead in Poland in terms of concentration of businesses representing the high technology sector. Their prevailing lines of business include the production of: • Electronic and telecommunication devices, • Industrial automation and mechanotronics, • Pharmaceuticals and derivative products, and services in: • Teleinformation, • System and database building and servicing, • Finance and accounting. The dynamic development of the high-tech sector is fed by the inflow of investments from international concerns and Polish companies transferring their own know-how here. It is also the effect of the high level training offered by the schools of higher education which teach highly specialised and professional staff. Companies of the type include e.g.: Intel Technology Poland, Flextronics International Poland, Young Digital Planet, DGT, Gemplus, Polotne, or ZenSar technologies. The important elements pertaining to the development of the knowledge-based economy include centres of excellence. The centres group academic and research units conducting research at the top world level, solving technical and technological problems indicated by the industry, offering training and education. The Metropolitan Area is home to an odd dozen Centres of Excellence and Centres of Competence. - 36 - Graph 11. Equity-based companies operating in the Gdańsk Metropolitan Area in 2007. Gdańsk City Gdynia Sopot Poviat of Gdańsk Kartuzy Nowy Dwór Puck Wejherowo 79 96 115 144 185 231 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 Source: Own study based on the CSO data, as at 31 March 2008. Centres of Excellence and Centres of Competence in the Metropolitan Area. BALTDER Centre of Excellence for Baltic Development, Education and Research – University of Gdańsk, BioMoBil Centre of Excellence in Bio-Safety and Molecular Biomedicine – University of Gdańsk, RECOURSE Research and Education Centre for Urban Socio-Economic Development – University of Gdańsk, COCISA Centre of Competence in Internet Security Area – University of Gdańsk, CEEAM Centre of Excellence in Environmental Analysis and Monitoring – Gdańsk University of Technology, CURE Centre for Urban Construction and Rehabilitation: Technology Transfer, Research and Education – Gdańsk University of Technology, CEMET Centre of Medical Technologies – Gdańsk University of Technology, CLEANERPAS Centre for Clean and Safe Technologies in Power Engineering – Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery, PAS, CeSSS Centre for Shelf Seas Science – Institute of Oceanology, PAS – Sopot, CEM Centre for Environmental Engineering and Mechanics – Institute of Hydroengineering, PAS – Gdańsk, CREM Centre of Research and Education in Medicinal Chemistry / Biotechnology – Gdańsk University of Technology – Gdańsk 863 1306 Atlas of the Gdańsk Metropolitan Area
Economic Potential of the Metropolitan Area CEMTAR Competence Centre for Marine Technology Applied Research – Marine Technology Centre – Gdańsk, POLMARF Polish Marine Fishery Science Centre – Sea Fisheries Institute – Gdynia. Source: Memorandum of the Gdańsk Metropolitan Area, Gdańsk Academy of Banking, Institute for Market Economics, Gdańsk 2007. Pomeranian Special Economic Zone The Pomeranian Special Economic Zone (PSSE) is made up of seventeen investment sub-zones spread over three voivodships: Pomeranian (448.3 ha), Kuyavian-Pomeranian (463.93 ha), and West Pomeranian (150 ha). The managing company, Pomeranian Special Economic Zone sp. z o.o., has its head office in Sopot. The entrepreneurs operating in the zone under the permit licence, are eligible for income tax exemption with respect to specific investment expenditure and the employment level. Pomeranian Special Economic Zone sp. z o.o. ul. Władysława IV 9, 81-703 Sopot tel.: (+48 58) 555 97 00, fax: (+48 58) 555 97 11, e-mail: marketing@strefa.gda.pl Alongside land available for investments, the Pomeranian Special Economic Zone offers a modern park of science and technology. Photo: Gdańsk Science and Technology Park - 37 - The special economic zone plus two parks of science and technology, in Gdańsk and Gdynia serve as a tool employed to support and develop businesses of the high-tech sector in the metropolis. Tabela 13. Locations of The Pomeranian Special Ecomomic Zone in 2008. Sub-Zone Location Aggregate area ŻARNOWIEC Kartoszyno, commune of Krokowa, poviat of Puck; commune of Gniewino, poviat of Wejherowo 105.33 ha CZATKOWY urban commune of Tczew, poviat of Tczew 63.70 ha ROKITKI urban commune of Tczew and rural commune of Tczew, poviat of Tczew 38.96 ha KWIDZYN urban commune of Kwidzyn, poviat of Kwidzyn 65.79 ha STAROGARD GDAŃSKI urban commune of Starogard Gdański, poviat of Starogard Gdański urban commune of Malbork (post-industrial estates), poviat 59.64 ha MALBORK of Malbork, neighbouring on national road No. 55, possible use of the river harbour on the Nogat, and a railway siding) 8.16 ha CZŁUCHÓW (RYCHNOWY) rural commune of Człuchów (5 km from Człuchów), poviat of Człuchów, on national road No. 22 15 ha CHOJNICE rural commune of Chojnice, poviat of Chojnice, on national road No. 22 15.31 ha SZTUM town and commune of Sztum, poviat of Sztum, on national road No. 55 12.47 ha GDAŃSK KLUKOWO city of Gdańsk, near the Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport 12.44 ha REGIONAL PSEZ PARK IN GDAŃSK KOKOSZKI city of Gdańsk, near the Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport 46.12 ha GDAŃSK SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARK city of Gdańsk, in the vicinity of the Gdańsk University of Technology, University of Gdańsk, and the Medical University of Gdańsk Source: Own study based on the data of the Pomeranian Special Economic Zone, 2008. 2.60 ha ŁYSOMICE – CRYSTAL PARK Ostaszewo, commune of Łysomice, poviat of Toruń 177.61 ha BARCIN commune of Barcin, poviat of Żnin 100.00 ha ŚWIECIE town of Świecie 166 ha REGIONAL PSEZ PARK IN GRUDZIĄDZ town of Grudziądz, near the A1 motorway in construction 115.91 ha STARGARD SZCZECIŃSKI town of Stargard Szczeciński 100.00 ha REGIONAL PSEZ PARK IN STARGARD SZCZECIŃSKI town of Stargard Szczeciński 50.00 ha
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