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The mission of the Incubator is economic development and increase of employment
rate in Niš region. The goal of the BIC Niš is to support small and medium sized
enterprises development by providing them with office space and production facilities
and other business-related services in the most critical development phases.
BIC Niš is available to companies in an early stage of their establishment which are
in production or production-related services businesses. These businesses need to
show the growth potential and prospects for new employment in the near future. BIC
Niš offers space facility, office services, production equipment, and soft services, i.e.
training programme, business idea analysis, market potential and access to financial
resources. In the first year, BIC Niš is supporting tenants free of charge. As of second
year the services are provided under non-commercial conditions.
During the year 2007, ENTRANSE project will support commercialisation phase of
this pilot business Incubator (BIC Niš) and ensure its sustainability. Matchmaking
activities between the tenant companies of the BIC Niš and the Norwegian
companies have already been started. A representative from the Welding Center, a
tenant company within BIC Niš, visited Indpro incubator and Vitec AS company in
Norway in February 2007. On this occasion some concrete activities were proposed,
such as sending to Norway welders from Welding Centre to be trained and certified
as welding instructors.
Furthermore, another tenant, Blue Crane, which line of business is production of
fishing hooks, visited Norway July 23, 2007 for more then a week, with a TV crew
from Serbian National television where they were filming fishing on the Norwegian
rivers with fishing hooks produced by Blue Crane. TV reportage will be on National
TV late September, 2007. They also contacted potential distributors for Norwegian
market.
The new tenants with expertise in IC technology products will be introduced until the
end of 2007.
Industry/Sector (technology area): Specialized business incubator oriented for
certain businesses
International activities: Cooperation with Norwegian companies
Name of
initiative:
Business Incubator Knjaževac (BIC Knjaževac)
Contact person: Dragan Milutinović (President of Advisory Board)
Email: bicknjazevac@ptt.yu
Website: Not available
The Knjaževac Business Incubator Centre (BIC Knjaževac) was established in May
19, 2005 as the first Business Incubator in Serbia with initial funding coming via
ENTRANSE Project - CHF/USAID, and OSCE. The Incubator assists the creation
and development of the SME sector in the municipality of Knjaževac. It is a non-profit
initiative launched by the Knjaževac-based NGO Timok Klub and this model of
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