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Jagiellonian Centre of Innovation, LifeScience Park
address:
ul. Bobrzyńskiego 14, 30-348 Kraków
tel./fax: +48 (12) 297 46 00/+48 (12) 297 46 46
e-mail/website:
jci@jci.pl/www.jci.pl
created: 2009
area: Total 18,997.31 m 2 , enclosed area for rent: 6,624.20 m 2
chief executive:
Paweł Błachno
contact:
Mariusz Piasecki
Within five years the JCI Group is due to become the manager of one of the most powerful
innovation centers in the field of life sciences, in Poland and in the EU. The Group’s
investment portfolio will include several innovative companies, some of which will be listed
on the stock exchange in the healthcare sector. They will also be executing R&D projects for
external partners.
Image: R. Szkaradek
The Jagiellonian Centre of Innovation Ltd (JCI) was founded by the Jagiellonian University in Krakow to provide support
for the development of life sciences in the region of Lesser Poland. The JCI provides the laboratory infrastructure
of the LifeScience Park, encourages large and medium businesses to make use of the region’s research potential,
stimulates the development of small and medium enterprises in the life science sector through, for example, capital
investments, and creates conditions for the commercialization of scientific findings in this field.
To fulfill these goals, the JCI has created special organizations that comprise the “JCI Group”, which manages
the specialized LifeScience Park in Krakow. The Park is made up of three interconnected buildings, two of which
are dedicated to large and medium enterprises, while the third, the BioIncubator, has been designated for start-up
firms and scientific projects with a high commercial potential. In the laboratory area the Park’s infrastructure may be
freely adapted to conduct advanced research in the fields of biotechnology, medicine, pharmacy, biology, chemistry,
physics, nanotechnology and environmental protection. The laboratory space has been integrated with a shared area
that acts as an organizational back office for all research activities conducted by the Park’s clients: meeting rooms,
conference and video conference rooms as well as technical and social facilities.
In addition to the Park, the JCI Group also invests capital in innovative projects and enterprises from its sector. The goal
is to seek out, identify and support innovative ideas and on their basis create new firms that will implement innovative
technologies and ideas.
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