The works on Zagreb Fair’s Pavilion 12 are coming to an end so Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandic, who initiated the project, officially handed the keys to the office to a start-up that will be the first innovative start-up to move in and develop business ideas at the new space of Zagreb Technology Park. The company is called “Vollo” and they ensured their place at the Park after winning a prize at the Zagreb Connect start-up conference in November 2016.
The new Zagreb Technology Park covers a 7,313 m² area and it is intended for developing start-up businesses, creating and producing innovative and high-tech solutions in order to enable young, educated and innovative people and their teams to stay in Zagreb and in Croatia, develop their ideas and turn them into entrepreneurial ventures in a stimulating and superbly equipped space.
“It makes me happy and proud that this space will soon be filled with young and educated people. These are exactly the type of promising individuals that we are trying to keep in Zagreb.” Mayor Bandić said, adding that the idea was to turn this space into a real startup factory.
The space is divided into 118 separate modular units with 3-4 possible working stations in each. There is also a co-working space, a special area for the implementation of acceleration programs and additional rooms for training and meetings, as well as server rooms and laboratories such as Center for Computer Forensics, Center for interface development, electronics, environmental technology and IoT (Internet of Things) sensor lab. Modular and flexible offices are designed so that users can customize them faster and easier, and, depending on their own needs and growth potential, they can use more than one module.
The area also contains a playroom with entertaining, high-quality and creative content for children of users of Zagreb Technology Park services.
In order to adapt to different needs and work closer with the people who want to start their own business, a new Entrepreneurial Centre as a branch office of Plavi ured (the main entrepreneurial centre in Zagreb) will also open soon.
An additional 7,300m2 space will soon be built on the ground floor of this same pavilion.
“According to a study we performed, Zagreb needs 25,000 m2. We will also renovate the administrative building of the former meat industry Sljeme in Sesvete, where focus will be put on high-technology entrepreneurship development. We have started making plans for the building.” Mirka Jozić, head of the City Office for Economy, Labor and Entrepreneurship, added.
15 million HRK has been invested in this project and the space will be equipped with cutting-edge technology.
Training, mentoring and encouraging development programs that will be implemented in this new and modern area will provide a high level of quality at the Zagreb Technology Park and put Zagreb on the map of distinct entrepreneurial and start-up destinations.
You can apply your business or start-up on the following link: prijava.tehnopark.hr and find out more about the Park here.
