Silesia is currently undergoing a multi-aspect transformation process. We can see it both at the level of the entire economy (as a process of changing the economic characteristics from a region focused to a large extent on mining and related activities into a region whose economic structures will take care of sectors with less growth potential and use the existing potential and resources to increase the competitiveness of economy in the Silesian Voivodeship), as well as at the level of young innovative projects, startups and scale-ups. […]