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Incubators are one of support activities for newly established small enterprises. At the end of November the newest incubator, a University Technology Incubator of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU), has started its activities. The incubator was established and financed within the grant scheme INTEG Phare CBC Austria Slovakia.

In the newly reconstructed premises of STU at Pionierska street fifteen start-ups will find here their seat with high quality communication infrastructure as well as further legal, economy, marketing, financial and other special services by starting their businesses. The start-ups will seat in the Incubator for three years. Within this time they should fully start their activities and be able to survive at the market.

The project of support of establishment and development of small technology companies ? University Technology Incubator with a complex programme InQb ? is the first of its type at academic ground in Slovakia. Innovations significantly contribute to the economic development of the country. This affirmation is valid especially if new ideas, technologies and knowledge are quickly changing into products and solutions. If they are put on the market. University Technology Incubator creates a space for this transfer, supports innovation potential at universities and helps newly established start-ups penetrate and to be successful on the market.