Tomasz Brodzicki is an Assistant Professor at the Economics of European Integration Division at the Faculty of Economics, University of Gdansk, Poland. He is a Director of Programme MA in European Economics and Finance – an international biennial programme taught entirely in English. He hols a Jean Monnet Teaching Module (2009-2012) granted by EC. He is also a Research Fellow of Instytut Rozwoju (Institute for Development) – a recently established Sopot-based independent think-tank (www.instytut-rozwoju.org). Formerly he hold a post of Research Fellow at a leading Polish think-tank GIME (IBnGR). His research interests include: economic growth and development, international economics with emphasis on international trade and open economy macroeconomics, new economic geography, economics of European integration, sectoral studies with emphasis on international competitiveness, economics of innovation. He is an expert in industrial clustering and cluster management.
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 dissertation was entitled: Accumulative Effects of Regional Economic Integration on the Example of the European Union. From 2010 he participates in selected courses of Advanced Studies Programme at the Institute fur Weltwirtschaft in Kiel, Germany. 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 has regular lectures at the University of Gdansk. In the past he hold lectures in Wyzsza Szkoła Bankowa, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdanska Fundacja Ksztalcenia Menedzerow (GFKM – MBS) and Akademia Kozminskiego, Warsaw. Since 2001 he taught the following courses: Aspects of economic growth and economic development, Economy of the European Union, Economics of European Integration – Graduate Level, International Economics, Innovation and Innovation Management, Spatial issues in contemporary economics – new economic geography, Economic and Monetary Union, 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
