Few Poles See Business as a Life Path, but Conditions Are Improving
Only 43 percent of Poles believe running a business is a good life choice, placing Poland among the lowest in Europe, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2024 report by PARP and the University of Economics in Katowice.
Despite this, Poland is seen as business-friendly in terms of infrastructure and openness to new firms, says Beata Tęgowska, an expert from Systim.pl. Key obstacles include weak entrepreneurship education, tax complexity, financing difficulties, and bureaucracy. However, compared to previous years, conditions have improved, especially in regulation and digital business services.
Over 3 million Poles now run businesses, mostly mature ones active for over 3.5 years – four times more than startups, which is the opposite of European trends.
Only 2.6 percent of respondents plan to start a business in the next three years, the lowest across GEM countries. Still, nearly 75 percent view the current six months as favorable for launching a business, highlighting the importance of continued regulatory simplification.
(WBJ)
