Tomasz Brodzicki is a lecturer of Economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Gdansk, Poland. He is also an employee of a leading Polish think-tank GIME (IBnGR). His research interests include: economic growth and development, international trade, economic geography, international competitivness, industrial economics (location, clusters), economic integration, innovation. He graduated from the University of Gdansk in 2001. He studied at the International University of Turku (Finland) and the University of Southern Denmark in Odense (scholarship of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs). He got his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Gdansk in 2006. PhD entitled: Accumulative Effects of Regional Economic Integration on the Example of the European Union. He is a member of the Polish European Communities Studies Association (PECSA) and is involved with the European Economics and Financed Society (EEFS).
In recent years he has been involved in a number of national and international research and consultancy projects. Among those for:
- Ministry of Economy (Poland),
- State Committee for Science (Poland),
- PAED (PARP - Poland),
- State Committee for European Integration (UKIE - Poland),
- European Commission, OECD (LEED Program),
- Haniel Fundation (Germany),
- a number of Polish municipalities and regional authorities.
He held scholarship of the Polish Science Fund (FNP 2004-2005). He is teaching the following courses at the University of Gdansk as well as at Wyzsza Szkoła Bankowa in Gdańsk: Aspects of economic grwoth and economic development (in English), Economy of the European Union (in English), International Economics (both in Polish and English), Innovation and Innovation Management (in English), Economics of European Integration, Adjustment of Poland to Membership in the EU, Policies of the European Union, Regional Diversity in Europe, Poland in the European Union, International Markets and Global Economy, Internal Market of the European Union.
Selected working papers and publications
New empirical insights into the growth effects of economic integration within EU - to download click here
The scale of internal market and the growth effects of regional economic integration. The case of the EU - to download click here
OECD (2005) Business Clusters - Promoting Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe co-author of a chapter on Poland - more info
Competitve Position of The Baltic Sea Region. The Role of Regional Clusters. Potential for Regional Cooperation and Competitiveness-stimulating Intraregional Realocation - to download advanced draft of the report for GIME please click here
