Deloitte?s research shows that Central European companies are increasingly aware of the nature of R&D activity. Some types of expenditures and business processes that didn?t use to be recognized as R&D spending are now included in that category.
?Last year as many as 75 percent of Polish companies believed that R&D activity entailed working on major innovations. Currently, only 23.6 percent maintain this view,? said Magdalena Burnat-Mikosz, head of R&D and Government Incentives in Central Europe at Deloitte.
The report also stated that Polish entrepreneurs expect the system of tax incentives for R&D to be changed. ?76 percent of them declared that if they could lower the amount of payable tax through write-offs, they would increase their R&D spending within the next five years,? the report said. Moreover, 39 percent of those polled said that the system of subsidies is too complicated and bureaucratic.
