Anna Szopa

Anna SzopaAnna Szopa, PhD, designs and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in entrepreneurship and technology commercialization. She holds an MS in Quality Management from Silesian University of Technology and earned her doctoral degree from Jagiellonian University examining innovation strategies of spin-off companies. She has twelve years’ experience in managing companies including research and consultancy. She awarded the fellowship of the The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (Sylff). She was a visiting researcher at Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute and University of Central Florida. Her primary research interests include university-industry relationships and university spin-offs. She is and editor of books about innovations, and published several articles in management journals and books.

Publications

The Application of Crowdsourced Processes in a Business Environment
The Application of Crowdsourced Processes in a Business Environment
Katarzyna Kopeć, Anna Szopa. © 2019. 12 pages.
The recent shift towards a polycentric perception of business making requires the involvement of stakeholders in an organization's management. This is a starting point for...
The Crowdsourcing Scheme as an Innovative Management Tool in University Spin-Offs
The Crowdsourcing Scheme as an Innovative Management Tool in University Spin-Offs
Katarzyna Kopeć, Anna Szopa. © 2019. 17 pages.
Crowdsourcing is an emerging technique adopted by companies in the process of innovation. It can be also adopted by university spin-offs that play the significant role in the...
The Influence of Crowdsourcing Business Model Into Artificial Intelligence
The Influence of Crowdsourcing Business Model Into Artificial Intelligence
Anna Szopa. © 2019. 11 pages.
We observe situation in which human computation processes leverage the abilities of people via the Web to perform complex computation. In this context human intelligence is...
The Crowdsourcing Scheme as an Innovative Management Tool in University Spin-Offs
The Crowdsourcing Scheme as an Innovative Management Tool in University Spin-Offs
Katarzyna Dorota Kopeć, Anna Szopa. © 2019. 17 pages.
Crowdsourcing is an emerging technique adopted by companies in the process of innovation. It can be also adopted by university spin-offs that play the significant role in the...
The Application of Crowdsourced Processes in a Business Environment
The Application of Crowdsourced Processes in a Business Environment
Katarzyna Kopeć, Anna Szopa. © 2018. 10 pages.
Strategic Crowdsourcing as an Emerging Form of Global Entrepreneurship
Strategic Crowdsourcing as an Emerging Form of Global Entrepreneurship
Anna Szopa, Katarzyna Dorota Kopeć. © 2018. 16 pages.
Entrepreneurs are looking for effective ways to internationalize their business ideas. Online crowdsourcing platforms enable them to access vast resources held by geographically...
Preface
Preface
Roman Batko, Anna Szopa. © 2017. 5 pages.
This Preface is included in the book Strategic Imperatives and Core Competencies in the Era of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
The Influence of Crowdsourcing Business Model into Artificial Intelligence
The Influence of Crowdsourcing Business Model into Artificial Intelligence
Anna Szopa. © 2017. 14 pages.
We observe situation in which human computation processes leverage the abilities of people via the Web to perform complex computation. In this context human intelligence is...
Strategic Crowdsourcing as an Emerging Form of Global Entrepreneurship
Strategic Crowdsourcing as an Emerging Form of Global Entrepreneurship
Anna Szopa, Katarzyna Dorota Kopeć. © 2016. 16 pages.
Entrepreneurs are looking for effective ways to internationalize their business ideas. Online crowdsourcing platforms enable them to access vast resources held by geographically...
Project Management in IT Type University Spin-Offs
Project Management in IT Type University Spin-Offs
Anna Szopa, Beata Jałocha. © 2016. 16 pages.
Poor project management in IT companies, strong industry competition, and small firm fragility are some of the most often cited arguments to justify business failure. This...
Crowdsourcing Business Model in the Context of Changing Consumer Society
Crowdsourcing Business Model in the Context of Changing Consumer Society
Katarzyna Kopeć, Anna Szopa. © 2015. 9 pages.
Competitive Strategies for Academic Entrepreneurship: Commercialization of Research-Based Products
Competitive Strategies for Academic Entrepreneurship: Commercialization of Research-Based Products
Anna Szopa, Waldemar Karwowski, David Barbe. © 2015. 317 pages.
In recent years, the pace of technological growth—from the very first stages of research and development to full-scale industrial implementation—has quickened at an exponential...
A Conceptual Framework of the Relationship between Institutional Framing and Innovativeness
A Conceptual Framework of the Relationship between Institutional Framing and Innovativeness
Anna Szopa, Justyna Bandola. © 2015. 23 pages.
This chapter's objective is to analyze the institutional networks of the spin-off companies. To meet this objective cases of three universities are being evaluated and...
The Crowdsourcing Scheme as an Innovative Management Tool in University Spin-Offs
The Crowdsourcing Scheme as an Innovative Management Tool in University Spin-Offs
Katarzyna Kopeć, Anna Szopa. © 2015. 17 pages.
Crowdsourcing is an emerging technique adopted by companies in the process of innovation. It can be also adopted by university spin-offs that play the significant role in the...
How Much Does the External CEO Matter in University Spin-Off?
How Much Does the External CEO Matter in University Spin-Off?
Anna Szopa, Tadeusz Marek. © 2014. 9 pages.
Deficiency of business understanding and experience, strong industry competition, and small firm fragility are some of the most often cited arguments that justify business...
Project Management in IT Type University Spin-Offs
Project Management in IT Type University Spin-Offs
Anna Szopa, Beata Jałocha. © 2014. 16 pages.
Poor project management in IT companies, strong industry competition, and small firm fragility are some of the most often cited arguments to justify business failure. This...
Academic Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation: A Business Management Perspective
Academic Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation: A Business Management Perspective
Anna Szopa, Waldemar Karwowski, Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos. © 2013. 423 pages.
In the ever changing scientific word, Academic entrepreneurship has emerged as a new and growing field. Referring to the creation and management of an environment for active...
Intellectual Capital and Business Performance in University Spin-Off Companies
Intellectual Capital and Business Performance in University Spin-Off Companies
Anna Szopa. © 2013. 10 pages.
University spin-off companies are under many competitive pressures that necessitate ongoing innovation and new product development. Technological and managerial knowledge endowed...