Prague – Technical Incubators

Dr. Pavel Komárek

Director, Business and Innovation Centre of the Czech Technical

University in Prague

President, Science and Science and Technology Parks Association CR

Prague – the City Profile

Area size 496,4 km2

Population (2001) 178 mil. inhabitants

Education (2001) 15% basic, 64% secondary,

21% university level

Age structure 14% pre-productive, 64% productive,

20% post-productive

Prague – the City Profile

Share on CR DGP approx. 19%

Per capita DGP approx. 10 527 ECU

Rating A –

No of private companies 275 000

No of foreign companies 38 253

Incubators in Prague: • Business and Innovation Centre of the Czech Technical

University in Prague *• Technology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences CR

*• CKD Technology Laboratories – Ecotechnology Centre *• Science and Technology Park VZLU Prague*• Incubator 2,0 – virtual incubator looking for the premises

now.* member of the Science and Technology Parks Association CR

(www.svtp.cz)

BIC CTU was founded in May 1991 as the first such centre in the

CEEC with the assistance of:

• Czech government,

• European Union.

Starting in 1992 it was built up as a Phare programme pilot project.

The Centre occupies an area of 2 ha on the west side of Prague:

• near highway D5 towards Pilsen,

• about 20 minutes from Prague airport and

• 20 minutes from the main campus of the university.

BIC CTU Prague

• The hiring of premises with advantageous rents (program MIT CR).

• Consultancy in the sphere of SMEs, including evaluation of projects, help with elaboration of business plans.

• Complex service in sphere of patents, inventions, trade marks and industrial design.

BIC CTU Prague

• BIC CTU Prague is on the list of institutions qualified for expert activities dealing with industrial ownership.

• Information and assistance in Framework Programmes (MEYS CR).

• Information and assistance in programme ”Renewal”- MIT CR.

BIC CTU Prague

• Contacts with specialised work centres of CTU

• and with other Business and Innovation Centres in Europe.

BIC CTU is a member of:

• European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN),

• Science and Technology Parks Association of the Czech Republic (STPA CR),

• Prague Economic Chamber.

1991 – 2002

• 65 clients (enterprises) have passed through the incubator of our Centre. – 41 innovative companies, – 14 service companies.

• 20 innovative companies were established by research workers or graduates of CTU,– 3 companies were established by students.

DHI HYDROINFORM, a.s.,

provides advisory and specialised services in the field of water management and the environment.

• Spin-off company with three employees (two research workers and one student).

• Over a period of five years, the company transformed itself from a limited liability company into a joint-stock company.

DHI HYDROINFORM, a.s.,

• In 1996, it was the first company from the Czech Republic to be awarded the prestigious Information Technology European Award.

• The company co-operates very closely with the Danish Hydraulic Institute, which ranks among the top institutes in its field.

• The company can use the name DHI.

Et Netera

business integrator (supplier of complete Internet and Intranet customer solutions)

• 1997 – spin-off company established by two students of CTU,

• 1998 – client of BIC,

• 2001 – Et Netera was placed the fifth on the Fast 50 list.

• The growth of Et Netera has been 987 % over the last three years.

Et Netera

The Central European Technology Fast 50 is an award program of D@T that targets fast-growing technology firms in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (10 000 companies).

Thank for your attention

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Phone: +420 2 5721 2873

e-mail: komarek@bic.cvut.cz

website: www.bic.cvut.cz