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The paper looks at the questions related to the cooperation between business and academia, as innovation and research and development (R&D) play an important role in the development of knowledge‑based economy and competitiveness of enterprises. In the article the author discusses, inter alia, the role of innovation, scope and forms of cooperation between private sector and academia, patents granted to the Polish institutions, as well as R&D financing and technology transfer centers (institutions that create links between science and business in order to commercialize research outputs).