[…] Even within our country, the Silesian Voivodeship comes not only behind Masovian, Lesser Poland and Lower Silesian, but also Łódź, Greater Poland, Subcarpathian and Lublin Voivodeships. This may be surprising, especially when we look at the number of newly opened companies and global corporation agencies in the region. In each of them, particularly at the very beginning of their activity, there is a spirit close to that of startups, where the corporate intrapreneurs (using Gifford Pinchot’s definition developed by Guy Kawasaki) take responsibility for creating the mother company’s branches from scratch. Obviously, this happens within the framework of the established business model, but the scale of challenges is always huge. Therefore, it may be concluded that there are business leaders in the region who are willing to take a risk of launching new activities. […]