Professor Silesian University of Technology, Chairperson of the Discipline of Science and Quality Management Silesian University of Technology. author of over 100 publications in the field of strategic management, innovation management and inter-organizational networks, in particular clusters. He directed and coordinated 8 research projects and implementing action. She was a contractor and an expert in several international projects and several national, authored or co-authored dozens of strategies of companies and public organizations. He is a member of the Board of the Scientific Society for Organization and Management TNOiK, member of the Academy of Sciences, Silesian branch, Steering Committee of the Regional Innovation Strategy province. Silesian and Silesian Innovation Council.