Incubator
On August 3,
2009 Kurzeme's
Business Incubator Ltd. (KBI) signed an agreement with the Investment and
Development Agency of Latvia on providing business incubation services in Liepāja, Kuldīga and Saldus from 2009
to 2014.
Business incubator is a structure that supports and promotes business
activities in a particular economic field, especially, it promotes the
formation and development of new, innovative businesses by facilitating
knowledge and technology transfer. Its primary function is to promote the
formation of new companies by providing them with premises, infrastructure
services and consultation services related to entrepreneurship during the
incubation process of 4 years. For more information click here.
Joining the business incubator during the first year of the company’s
registration in the Register of Enterprises, the available support is:
|
|
Year of incubation |
|
Services |
Year 1 |
Year 2 |
Year 3 |
Year 4 |
|
Infrastructure
services |
85% |
60% |
40% |
10% |
|
Secretariat
services |
85% |
60% |
40% |
10% |
|
Consultation
services |
85% |
60% |
40% |
10% |
The main goals are:
- to promote cooperation between educational and scientific
institutions on the one hand, and production on the other hand;
- to promote formation of small companies that produce new,
technological and knowledge-based production;
- to establish contacts between research labs and industry;
- to promote international cooperation among small businesses
with the purpose to produce high-quality, competitive products and create
new work places for qualified professionals and researchers;
- to promote formation of society that would be open for
innovation.
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