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Polish scientists won three gold medals with honours, eight gold medals and five special awards at at INPEX, the Invention and New Product Exposition. INPEX is the largest US Invention Trade Show organised for the 28th time.

According to the Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013, published by the World Economic Forum, Poland is to be found among 21 countries in the process of transition from the economy based on the efficiency of the production system to the economy based on innovation. As a crucial part of this process Poland focuses on the development of IT/ICT sector, which has recently grown to be its national specialty. International campaign “Do IT with Poland” is aimed at making the world acquainted with the intellectual and investment potential of the Polish IT as well as presenting the strongest Polish ICT companies.

Poland may become a center of advanced IT services due to highly qualified specialists and managers – according to a recent survey of IT@PL Antal International, which was presented on May 16 at a conference in PAIiIZ.

If we conduct surveys asking random people on the street of the most famous Polish name from the world of science and technology, the most common answer would probably be Maria Curie-Sklodowska, Copernicus or even Lucjan Łagiewka. But one of the outstanding Polish scientists is a little less known, but just as brilliant as the previously mentioned – Jan Czochralski.

On September 20, 2012 the president of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, the world’s largest laboratory for particle physics, was elected. Polish woman – Prof Agnieszka Zalewska from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of Polish Academy of Science will hold the office from January 1, 2013.