{"id":809,"date":"2026-05-29T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ie.uek.krakow.pl\/kpii\/?post_type=employee&#038;p=809"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:14:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:14:40","slug":"maria-urbaniec","status":"publish","type":"employee","link":"https:\/\/ie.uek.krakow.pl\/kpii\/en\/employee\/maria-urbaniec\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Urbaniec"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Academic\u00a0 \u00a0background<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Associate Professor at the Department\u00a0 of\u00a0 Entrepreneurship and Innovation\u00a0 of\u00a0 the\u00a0 Krakow University of Economics (Poland)\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doctor of Economics (PhD)\u00a0 at\u00a0 the\u00a0 \u00a0Internationales\u00a0 Hochschulinstitut\u00a0 Zittau \/ Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden (Germany)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Master\u00a0 of\u00a0 Business Administration at the Internationales Hochschulinstitut Zittau \/ 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