WARSAW — Poland is better known for its vodka than its high-tech startups, but one nonprofit here with backing from Israel is trying to create the next ecosystem for ideas.
Since Poland joined the European Union in 2004, an estimated 2 million-plus Poles have left for the higher salaries and better living standards in the West. Not all of them are the infamous Polish plumbers. Many of them are doctors, lawyers, engineers and IT specialists.
The brain drain is a crucial problem for Poland – one that Marek Borzestowski, an entrepreneur and founder of one of Poland’s first web portals, Wirtualna Polska, …read more
Source: European Voice
