Interview with Dr. Burton Lee, a technology venture finance and innovation strategy professional with over 15 years experience, managing partner of Innovarium Ventures, former principal and co-founder of Space Angels Network, a professionally managed national network of accredited investors focused on seed- and early-stage aerospace-related ventures. - You have visited Poland several times. What do you think of the changes the country has been through? - When I visited Poland for the first time in 1976 I was a very young and naïve undergraduate student studying Soviet Economics at the University of Munich in Germany. The times were very different. Poland has made much progress since those dark days under Communism, and I am very happy to return now to a Free Poland and Warsaw. Today, I gave a talk at SGH in Warsaw, and these are some of my quick impressions. I spent about an hour just walking around the halls, looking at the posters. I went to the bookstore and there were no English books, it was all Polish. Everything was in Polish, almost not a single English word. That is not good because today English is the language of global innovation and technology. None of them had Facebook or Twitter either. When you look at the big advertisements here in the streets there is almost no connection to social media. I was in Gdańsk for 3 or 4 days in 2010 to speak at a conference. I guess the major impression I have from Poland from November 2010 and today is that Poland is still very isolated from the global innovation system. There is very little information entering from outside Poland. Poland seems very disconnected from the rest of Europe and much of the world. I don't see many non-Polish things here, it is a completely Polish environment. - Do you think we fail to go global? - Yes, it is a very inward looking, very Polish world here. Many Poles I have met don't seem to know much about what is happening outside Poland. Also, many Poles that I meet don't have strong networks into the rest of Europe. I know there are many Poles working in England and Ireland but their experiences and knowledge does not seem to filter back into Poland’s technology and innovation sectors. These are only quick impressions. I have only been here 24 hours. But just walking around... the very fact that the posters had no social media connections shows that people here use social media just for personal relationships and they don't seem to use it for business very extensively. This is only the part of interview - full version is available in Proseed #22, only for subscribers.

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