Launch platform for new ideas Hub of Talents
no. Ref.: SA.42798(2015/X) Animators of the launch platform for new ideas – Hub of Talents is 6 technoparks from Podlasie and Warmia-Mazury voivodships listed in points II and VI of the application. More than 50 entities were involved in the implementation of the incubation programme: local self-government units, including the City: Białystok, Olsztyn, Elbląg, Elk, Suwałki and Łomża – in which cycles of incubation will take place; universities, including e.g. Warsaw University of Technology, Białostock University of Technology, Medical University in Białystok, University of Warmia and Mazury; capital funds; a network of business angels; economic self-governments; clusters; business environment institutions and large enterprises, including CISCO Systems Poland sp. z o.o. and Samasz sp. z o.o. Participants of the start-up ecosystem declared support for the incubation program by posting mentors, industry experts, declaring business advice, including financial analyses, conducting workshops with commercialisation, as well as promoting the program in order to attract as many interesting ideas for innovative product/services to the platform. The incubation programme will include basic services provided to start-ups (i.e. legal service, accounting, tax advice, development of corporate identification elements, provision of space to work on the idea), a series of workshops common to all qualified for the programme (including marketing and sales strategies, pitching before investors), as well as tailor-made services designed as part of individual incubation programmes by startup maintainers. The supported companies will be supported by mentors – experienced entrepreneurs. The incubation programme will provide the possibility of incubating ideas submitted by foreigners – in English and designed to support the idea for innovative business from any industry.