Fundusze zalążkowe w rozwoju przedsiębiorczości w Polsce

The paper aims to analyze the role of seed founds in development of entrepreneurship in Poland. The key problem of small and medium enterprises, especially those with high level of innovation is lack of appropriate capital to finalize the conceptual works and to start business operations. Although there are available different sources of capital., i.e. business incubators, technological parks, special aid programs, those are not sufficient. In developed countries are well functioning formal and unofficial markets of venture capital that support business pioneer initiatives. In Poland this markets are in infancy. One of the forms of supporting innovative initiatives and solving problems of insufficient capital are Seed Founds. In Poland already operate 6 seed founds and next two are in implementation phase