What works in Kraków
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Evidence snapshot for Kraków
Kraków Technology Park (KPT) is a publicly owned innovation ecosystem founded in 1997 by the city's three major universities, municipal and regional authorities, and steelmaker ArcelorMittal to link academic research to industry. The initiative manages a 1,016-hectare special economic zone across multiple municipalities, with 117 tenant companies on its home campus, 600 zone investors, and 300+ startups graduated from acceleration programmes. In 2023, KPT issued investment support decisions totalling PLN 2 billion and declared 1,099 new jobs, while fDi Intelligence named the zone Europe's most innovative economic zone in 2024.
Drawn from: Krakow Technology Park — A University-Born Special Economic Zone · Kraków Technology Park — City–University Technology Transfer & Special Economic Zone · Kraków Technology Park (KPT) — Startup Incubator and Innovation Accelerator · Krakow Technology Park (Krakowski Park Technologiczny) · CITTRU — Jagiellonian University Centre for Technology Transfer (Kraków)
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Scalability +31 pts 93 here · 62 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +16 pts 73 here · 57 average
Sustainability / continuity +8 pts 87 here · 78 average
Weaknesses
Innovation -22 pts 40 here · 62 average
Inclusiveness / equity -29 pts 13 here · 43 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Kraków. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Krakow Technology Park — A University-Born Special Economic Zone · 81
Kraków Technology Park — City–University Technology Transfer & Special Economic Zone · 67
Kraków Technology Park (KPT) — Startup Incubator and Innovation Accelerator · 67
Krakow Technology Park (Krakowski Park Technologiczny) · 57
CITTRU — Jagiellonian University Centre for Technology Transfer (Kraków) · 48
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Fit estimates how well a practice matches this place, 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent); the list is ordered to favour practices that address this place's gaps. Know more