Esa Bic Poland

ESA Business Incubation Centres (ESA BICs) are the largest network of space incubators in Europe. The main objective of ESA BICs is to support entrepreneurs with a space-based business idea, thereby creating and growing clusters of space related start-ups across Europe. All ESA BIC are managed by local champions who connect their ESA BICs to their local industry, universities, research organisations, government, and investor communities, while also maintaining strong regional/national links. This makes the ESA BICs very well embedded in the local communities as well as the place of choice for all space related innovation and business. ESA BIC Poland is joining the network as the 26th ESA BIC. The objective of ESA BIC Poland is to create and strengthen the community of successful space related start-ups in Poland by supporting 35 incubatees over the period of 5 years under the ESA BIC scheme. ESA BIC Poland's tasks include: • promoting entrepreneurship; • supporting cooperation between science, business and administration; • activities that strengthen international cooperation; and support for the SME sector. Beneficiaries of the program, are micro, small or medium-sized enterprises, operating in the market for no more than 5 years, providing products, processes or services using new technologies or with innovative use of existing technologies. ESA BIC Poland's activities are conducted and coordinated by the Industrial Development Agency JSC in cooperation with the Incubation Centers in Warsaw and Rzeszow.