Open AccessPolish economic clusters and their efforts to protect the environment – selected examples
Author(s) -
Joanna Dyrda-Muskus
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal for perspectives of economic, political and social integration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2300-0945
pISSN - 1733-3911
DOI - 10.2478/v10241-012-0024-4
Subject(s) - sustainable development , competitive advantage , entrepreneurship , business , business environment , process (computing) , industrial organization , element (criminal law) , economic system , economics , environmental economics , computer science , marketing , political science , business administration , finance , law , operating system
This paper presents the benefits they can obtain business which aim to protect the environment. The environment protection has found its place and affects the process of systemic change of the Polish economy. This article assumes that building a competitive economy and enterprise development based on the principle of sustainable development requires the development of mechanisms for mutual benefits. These will be the economic mechanisms, technical and technological, and social. All these mechanisms are concentrated in clusters. Pursue sustainable development policies, an emphasis on environmental protection will be the general element for them a competitive advantage. Sustainable development will in this case be both the agent and the goal of economic and entrepreneurship development. Basing on the assumption that economic development is possible through the achievement of competitive advantage, sustainable development should be treated as its source