Tomasz Bieliński

This article discusses the soft power of China and its impact on public opinion in Poland. It examines various aspects of Chinese culture, politics, and economy, as well as the tools used by China to promote its soft power in Poland. The article presents the results of the survey, which show that the overall opinion of China in Poland is neutral, despite China’s efforts to promote its soft power in the country. However, the survey also reveals that Polish respondents have a positive view of Chinese culture and economy, while their perception of Chinese politics is negative. The article concludes that China’s soft power in Poland is still limited, but it has the potential to grow in the future, particularly through the promotion of Chinese culture and the Chinese economy

Chinese Internet sector companies have capabilities to create innovation that will shape internal market, and could have significant impact on global competition. These capabilities are based on several important factors. Probably the most important of these factors is huge capacity and dynamic growth of the internal market. Companies located in smaller countries do not have such possibilities of growth, because their internal markets do not have sufficient capacity. Chinese Internet software developers can grow on internal market to the size that gives them possibility to compete with global corporations and expand to international markets. Second most important factor of Chinese Internet sector competitiveness is of thousands of computer science graduates that enter Chinese labor market every year. Wages of software engineers in China are much lower than in western countries, so Chinese software developers have considerable cost advantage over their global competitors. Third factor of Chinese Internet software developers competitiveness is the support of government that is successfully using censorship laws to exclude foreign competition from local market. All those factors make Chinese Internet companies highly competitive and enable them to enter international markets. Case studies of Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu prove that Chinese companies can not only dominate local market, but also successfully compete with global corporations.

The aim of the article was to verify if Chinese game market can be attractive for Polish game producers, and which part of this market is the most promising and gives the biggest growth opportunities. The second goal was to identify major barriers to entry on the Chinese game market, and to find out if this obstacles can be overcome. Analysis of the growth of the Internet access and penetration ratio has shown that online game market in China has a potential to become the biggest in the world. Video game market research has shown that not only its growth potential is extraordinary, but it is already second largest in the world. Further analysis helped to establish that it is online and mobile game market that is the most promising for Polish game developers. Several barriers to entry were identified, but none of them is too problematic to stop game producers from expansion to Chinese online and mobile game market.

Relations between different fields of tertiary education and the innovativeness of an economy
The main aim of the paper is to determine the relations between the education in different fields of university study and the innovativeness of an economy. The research method is an analysis of the correlations between the number of graduates in particular fields and the number of patent applications filed in given country. The study confirms the hypothesis that not all numbers of tertiary education graduates are positively correlated with innovativeness indicators. The strongest statistically relevant correlation was found between the number of patent applications and the number of graduates in medicine, science, humanities and arts, and engineering. Another relevant correlation was found between the number of patent applications and the number of graduates in social sciences, business and law, and education, but only several years after they had finished studying. There is no correlation between the number of patent applications and graduates in agriculture or services.
 

The concept of disability has been accompanied by controversies, stereotypes and stigmatization for years. Despite the fact that the number of people with disabilities in China and the United States is still growing, the issue of perceiving the functioning of disabled people in the society and including them to the work environment remains unsolved, notwithstanding the number of legal regulations and financial incentives in China and USA to change the employment of people with disabilities. This study compares the perception of employment of people with disabilities in China and the United States. The comparison was based on a self-conducted study among the Chinese community between February and March 2020 on a group of 121 people using the CAWI method (Computer Assisted Web Interview) and an American study: A national survey of consumer attitudes towards companies that hire people with disabilities, by G.N. Siperstein, N. Romano, A. Mohler, and R. Parker, conducted on 803 residents of the USA randomly selected for telephone interviews. The comparison took place, among others, in the assessment of the employment of disabled people by respondents in the context of other social activities in the company, as well as the satisfaction of the respondents with the results of the disabled at work. It was pointed out that in both China and the USA, previous experiences with people with disabilities may affect a more favorable approach towards employing disabled people. However, there are differences in the satisfaction with services provided by people with disabilities, as well as in trust in disabled workers, where Chinese residents have less positive attitude than their American counterparts.