Category Archives: WBJ

Magdalena ZienkiewiczImage : Wierciński, Kwieciński, Baehr

Restoration issues

June 24, 2014 Lokale Immobilia, WBJ
Magdalena Zienkiewicz is legal counsel and partner at Wierciński, Kwieciński, Baehr sp.k., a Warsaw-based law firm. She heads the firm’s real estate and investment team and her areas of expertise include real estate transactions, city zoning law and construction law
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Warsaw rent crunch

June 24, 2014 Lokale Immobilia, WBJ
With 300,000 sqm of office space set to come online in 2014, experts see office vacancy rates increasing to 15 percent towards the end of the year
Lena Kolarska-BobińskaImage : Ministry of Science and Higher Education

Set to innovate

June 24, 2014 WBJ
Lena Kolarska-Bobinska, Poland’s science and higher education minister, talks with WBJ Observer about promoting innovation in the economy and increasing cooperation between universities, the academic community and business
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The shale gas bubble

June 23, 2014 WBJ
Three years ago, Poland seemed on the verge of an energy boom powered by the vast shale gas reserves it was reported to hold. Did that prove to be wishful thinking?
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Spirited Away

June 23, 2014 WBJ
In the mid 1990s, Poland was flowing with vodka. There were then some 1,000 distilleries in the country, but that number has now dropped to a mere 100 as producers struggle to make ends meet
Anna TraczewskaImage : Karolina fender Noińska

A label to reckon with

June 23, 2014 WBJ
We all travel. But not all of us travel in style. WBJ Observer investigates Metka by Traczka, a lingerie baggie business and the brainchild of Anna Traczewska, a marketing professional turned style guru
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The brains that work for the heart

June 23, 2014 WBJ
While still at university, Marek Dziubiński developed a passion for algorithms. His “journey of a lifetime” has taken him to the position of president of an innovative medical equipment company that exports to the US. And this is just the beginning
Profesor Wojciech Bal Image : Wojciech Bal

Science funding: in need of a strategy

June 23, 2014 WBJ
Professor Wojciech Bal is research group leader of the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the Polish Academy of Sciences, and is a member of Obywatele Nauki (Citizens of Academia), a civic movement that promotes change in the scientific and academic environment.
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Poland’s innovation complex

June 23, 2014 WBJ
Remember the scene from Back to the Future III, when Clara Clayton, Doc Brown’s lady-friend, beautifully portrayed by Mary Steenburgen, is trying to hitch a ride on the 88-mph train heading straight for 1985? The train keeps moving in leaps, leaving the poor Clara flabbergasted and gasping for air w...