The assessment and ranking of 500 most innovative companies in Poland of the year 2009 is done by the Institute of Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the MSN Science Network. This year, it was its sixth edition.

The ranking is the result of research on various manifestations of innovativeness in our country. The results of the research based on 2009 data, together with a list of the 500 most innovative enterprises, are published in the report on innovativeness of Polish economy in 2010.

Polpharma was evaluated in terms of market and process innovativeness, expenditure in innovations, patents and European contracts.

The awards and the research results were presented on 19 May 2011 at a science conference entitled: European Funds in the development of innovativeness of Polish economy in 2010.