Research Issues of the Function of Entrepreneurship in the Socio-Economic Development of Spatial Systems in Polish Economic Geography

The issues of economic geography research are subject to constant changes, mainly corresponding to the dynamic changes in the socio-economic space, especially in Polish conditions in the period of systemic transformation. This is also reflected in taking new research directions. One of those developed intensively in Poland after 1989 is entrepreneurship and its role in the development of spatial systems. The theme of the article is, therefore, the research problem of the role of entrepreneurship in the development of spatial systems. In the light of the analysis of the literature on the subject, mainly related to geographic research conducted by Polish researchers in this field, the article analyses various views on the concept of entrepreneurship, determines international and national conditions for entrepreneurship development, and proposes a systematic approach to entrepreneurial function in the development of spatial systems of various scales. The links between entrepreneurship and geography, the significant share of geographers in research in this field and the possibilities of using in this research the model of the functioning of geographical space were pointed out. In the final part, further directions of geographic research on this subject were recommended, which may contribute to the systematic increase of the importance of this discipline in the system of sciences and application activities, in particular in the development, implementation and monitoring of development strategies for spatial systems of different scales.