Project management in micro and small enterprises on the example of projects undertaken by the University of Szczecin

The paper presents the University of Szczecin’s experiences with micro and small enterprises concerning the implementation of innovative process solutions and pre-implementation research. This form of cooperation took place in 2009-2011 and was part-financed by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development. The paper describes the phases of the University of Szczecin’s experience of cooperation with entrepreneurs, from a beauty contest to negotiations on the contract, delivery of the service and the final settlement. For selected case studies the continuation of the cooperation between enterprises and the scientific institution has been presented as achievement of one of the programme objectives, i.e. the establishment of cooperation between entrepreneurs and scientific institutions.