Abstract
Profits and advantages of globalisation flow mainly to large urban agglomerations that constitute the main nodes of the global network owing to the activity of transnational corporations. As a result of intensive global links, in those areas there develop new forms of organisation of economic space. The paper seeks to analyse elements of innovative space in Polish cities in the days of the advancing globalisation of the economy. The study embraced investment of the largest transnational corporations in the world based in Polish cities, especially their investment in R&D centres and business service centres, as well as innovative business environment institutions (technological parks, technology transfer centres, technological incubators, business incubators) and clusters operating in Poland.
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