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The aim of the paper is to illustrate the need for permanent structural changes in Poland’s economy. Structural changes are needed to address workforce surplus, especially in rural areas, the low level of progress in technology used in Polish supply, weak export numbers of ICT and other technology-intensive goods, and a somewhat dysfunctional R&D system that has rendered the country unattractive in terms of the products it can offer global markets. A very low level of private sector involvement in financing R&D has led to a corresponding lack of growth in new places of employment, and not only in the R&D sector. Continuous structural changes should be ushered in, advances in technology made in the economy, the private R&D system funded and new workplaces created.