R&D, research, and development mean acquiring know-how concerning products, technologies, or processes and carrying out theoretical analyses, systematic studies, or experiments, including experimental production, technical testing of products or processes, providing necessary equipment, and obtaining intellectual property rights for the results of the works.

We are a public institution, and our main objective is to increase the competitiveness of Polish companies. The whole process of servicing companies within the framework of the Łukasiewicz Challenge System is free. We analyze challenges without charging any fees, prepare solution proposals and organize teleconferences with the participation of the clients and authors of the ideas. The terms of cooperation are only negotiated when the entrepreneur concludes a specific contract for implementing R&D work with the selected team of experts.

Entrepreneurs often know how a problem should be solved but need more resources. In this sense, all you need is an idea, which Łukasiewicz’s scientists and engineers will help to implement.

If you need a solution already developed at Łukasiewicz (i.e. an ‘off-the-shelf product’), our staff will contact you within a few working days with our offer. Likewise for testing and certification. On the other hand, if you are looking for support in an R&D project, you will usually wait no longer than a month for our proposals. The timing of the R&D project itself remains an individual issue – we need to know a lot of parameters to get this right. This is what meetings between Łukasiewicz experts and the entrepreneur are for.

Nothing pleases us more than the results of joint works. Every solution developed at Łukasiewicz is intended to benefit the client, and this is most easily achieved by working together at the early stages of a project.