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The main aim of the paper is to analyze interdependencies between public innovation policy and technological innovation in Poland in 1989-2001. The following problems are presented: a general picture of innovativeness in the Polish economy, total expenditures on R&D in 1989-2001, changes in public innovation policy (in a form of survey of all major government documents concerning science and technology), interdependencies in the analyzed area, and recommendations towards the policy.