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Warsaw Innovation Potential City
Project „Warsaw Innovation Potential City”
(POKL 8.2.1)
Partnership project realised by the European Fund Office (Warsaw City
Council) in cooperation with Foundation of the Academics
Entrepreneurship Incubators and Ryszard Lazarski University of Law
and Commerce
The aim of the project:
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increasing innovation potential among Warsaw students environment
promoting academics entrepreneurship
increasing theoretical and practical knowledge concerning spin
out/off business activities
Target group of the project: „Warsaw potential innovation
city” :
• Academics, science workers, PhD students
• Graduates ( 12 months from the date of graduation) ,
students of Warsaw Universities
Recruitment for the project
• Seminars about entrepreneurship: open recruitment
process through a notification on the meeting, phone call
or email
• Participation in the trainings: Call on the basis of
application forms containing the idea of innovative
business, the procedure for selection. Forms available on
the project website
Main project activities:
Organizing 10 seminars on academic entrepreneurship on
Warsaw’s Universities
Conducting competition for the innovative ideas
Support for trainings - consultancy for 45 people:
• Innovation School
• PABA Training - practical education about entrepreneurship
• Training in business
An evaluation of business plans, which were chosen from 15 top
innovative companies
Enabling 15 people to test their business ideas on the principles
of pre-incubation of Academic Incubators of Entrepreneurship
Planned outcomes of the project
• 400 people are supposed to obtain information on academic
entrepreneurship and the possibilities of assistance in setting up own
company.
• 45 people are supposed to receive training in the field of: development
of entrepreneurial attitudes and increasing motivation for starting own
companies, creating innovative ideas, gaining knowledge needed to set
up a business.
• 15 companies are supposed to have the opportunity to test their
business ideas in the pre-incubators.
• Organising one conference presenting the results of the project
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Editing 2 000 publications
Companies formed under the project have also possibility of participating in
450 hours of specialist training on:
150 hours of mentoring - individual work with a mentor that focuses on building a
strategy for the development of enterprises and entrepreneurs. Consulting led by
the experienced person in implementing business projects, addressing the
problems related to the management company's leadership, building motivation.
150 hours of pro-innovative consulting - advice on innovation projects, legal
aspects of commercialization of knowledge, protection of trademarks, the
procedures for obtaining patents.
150 hours of financial brokering - advice on funding opportunities for the
company and on the form of financing suitable for the company
Achieved results:
• 615 people gained knowledge about the possibility of setting up own
company based on academic knowledge, including companies sleeps out /
off
• 43 people have been trained in:
– Running own Business - legal and economic training
– Innovation School- possibility of gaining knowledge about concept of
innovation, analysis of innovation and competitiveness analysis of the
proposed activity, inter alia, through the familiarizing with the Blue Ocean
Strategy (BOS) and creating own business on the basis of BOS framework
– PABA Training - Poland As a Business Area - practical knowledge about
entrepreneurship, stimulating economic activity among people from academic
environment, overcoming mental barriers regarding the risk of running own
business
There have been 17 companies which were set with the support of WPI project- most
of them are social portals such as portal for the artistic community, portal
supporting business meetings and social events, publicity company, design
offices and companies with advanced technology and medical information such
as: fotocodes, security systems, computer clusters and laboratories testing
samples of the biological materials.
Company Bohomass - an artistic community portal with the objective of bringing
together emerging artists environment (for example, students of Fine Arts in
Warsaw) with a group of recipients, art lovers and potential customers
Company Qodo.pl - business based on fotocodes technology and its use for ex. in
advertisement
Sensimedix – implementing pressure sensors applicable in the field of
ophthalmology on the polish market
NAVkart - offers digital maps for GPS navigation for the Great Masuria Lakes
Manufaktura KunSZTU - landscape architecture design office that also offers
classes for children and teenagers concerning eco-education
E-projektownia - a company offering services in the field of reverse engineering,
design, calculation and implementation of the numeric products using for to
exploitation
Algorithms & Forecast Solutions - company offers calculation and prognosis
algorithms. Offer is based on creating a computer cluster
Companies were created by:
• 7 PhD students and 1 researcher from the following Warsaw’s
Universities:
Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw University, Warsaw Military
Technical Academy, Warsaw Agricultural University, Warsaw Medical
University,
• 12 students and graduates from the Universities mentioned above and
from Warsaw School of Economics and Warsaw School of Computer
Science,
Currently, companies start to operate in the pre-incubators and benefit from
the individual consulting
Project: „Warsaw Innovation Potential City „
is implemented by the European Funds
Department of the City of Warsaw
www.warszawainnowacje.pl
Address: Krzywickiego 34/127,128
02-078 Warsaw
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Phone: +48 22 443 07 98
+48 22 443 07 97