Deloitte: Polish firms earmark 19% of IT budgets on innovation

Around the world, 16 percent of current budgets is spent on innovation and business development. In Poland, spending on innovation represents 19 percent of IT budgets, Deloitte reported.

"Companies based in our country are also increasing IT spending on business development, which accounts for 32 percent of the technology budget," said the head of the Technology Consulting team in Central and Eastern Europe at Deloitte, Andrzej Lechowski.

Worldwide, two-thirds of IT budgets is spent on maintaining current operations, in Poland spending reaches 50 percent. For over half of Polish IT managers, the main priority is the growth of their organizations . Worldwide, the number one priority is performance (48 percent of responses).