IV Economic Forum of Young Leaders
September, 08 - 12, 2009, Nowy Sącz, Poland

All barriers exist in minds

Everybody can be an entrepreneur. The barriers identified by participants that prevent them from setting their own enterprise were as follow: lack of money, beaurocracy, lack of idea, competition, other activities like studies, lack of experience, the crisis. The speakers stated that the biggest barriers exist in our minds. We need to gather experience, travel and observe. When the idea is good we can find external support for our ideas, such as offers the Academic Business Incubator and other similar bodies.

In Poland, there is still much to be done in order to give the entrepreneurship and innovation their right place said President Kwaśniewski. We need to estimate the enterprising people. Innovation must be based on knowledge about the current situation. Crisis is a time for youth and good ideas. Crisis destroys all what is old and creates new. Crisis opens new possibilities although is a problem for the politicians.

The unexpected gueast of the Forum was the former president Aleksander Kwaśniewski who took part in the morning discussion.