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A competitor’s financial statements in the National Court Register (KRS) are public and free. Here are four things to check in them.

In May 2022, the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PARP) announced the “SME Internationalisation” (Internacjonalizacja MŚP) call for Eastern Poland, under which companies can obtain funding of up to PLN 900,000.

Market analyses have a very wide range of uses in business. They help experts, managers and entrepreneurs make important decisions in many different areas of their companies’ operations.

Companies today operate in an extremely changeable market environment. Recently there has been much talk not only of widespread and continuous change, but also of much deeper disruption, which significantly alters the existing order and the way business is done.

Business is constantly changing, and the days when success depended only on access to enough money are gone. Today, information is core business capital and a resource often of immense value. Selecting it skilfully matters all the more because too much data can be overwhelming.

At work we are often so busy with hundreds of urgent and important projects that we have no time for what should underpin every business action and decision: the data provided by market analysis, competitor analysis and business research.

Building contacts with foreign trading partners is the basic way to reach potential buyers of goods or services abroad. But what can you do when industry events move into the digital world and the benefits of networking shrink almost to zero? How do you find foreign business contacts?

At the beginning of January, the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PARP) announced another edition of the Go to Brand competition. The competition offers funding for the international promotion of projects, brands and products. The funding can be used, among other things, for an advisory service that shows how to effectively promote your company

If you run an SME based in the Małopolskie province, you can now obtain funding for market analysis and research under the “Małopolska Development Vouchers Plus” (Małopolskie Bony Rozwojowe Plus) programme. Businesses from other provinces can also obtain funding for advisory services.

OSINT (open-source intelligence) means intelligence gathered from public sources. In practice, you use publicly available sources to obtain data and information. It can serve various purposes and use more or less advanced tools. OSINT can be used in business, and sometimes it is even necessary.