Academic Incubators of Entrepreneurship

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Academic Incubators of Entrepreneurship
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Academic Incubators of Entrepreneurship

• A NEW QUALITY IN THE CREATION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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Reasons behind the creation of AIE

• High levels of unemployment
• among college graduates
• Bureaucracy
• Complicated procedures
• High costs of setting up and running a business
• Lack of experience and practical knowledge among
  students
• Mentality barriers
• Lack of practical education in the field of
  entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship competitive predominance of
  Poland and Polish people in the EU
• A need for the creation of over 6 million firms
  in the EU
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation the future and
  chances of the EU

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What do the Academic Incubators of
Entrepreneurship offer?

• AIE is
• the easiest,
• the fastest,
• the least risky
• way of setting up practically any business for
  any young person under 30 years of age

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The mission and aim of AIE

• AIE makes it possible for young people in
  Poland to accomplish their enterprising dreams.
• Our aim is to support and offer any kind of help
  with setting up a business from A to Z
• We want to create a consortium
• of institutions and projects
• generating entrepreneurship
• in Poland.

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Successes of AIE

• 2 years of functioning
• A network of 21 Incubators at colleges
• all around the country
• The biggest network of AIE in Europe
• Until this day, over 300 businesses have been
  launched into the market by the Incubators
• At present, over 160 businesses run by young
  entrepreneurs function within the AIE
• An innovative system of supporting business in
  AIE
• The biggest business plan competition in the
  country
• Advice for over 1500 people interested in setting
  up their own businesses
• The campaign Support Young Business, which aims
  at gaining commissions for new firms.
• 3 millions of income generated by AIE businesses
  in 2006
• Initiative of the Year 2005

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What can AIE do for your business?

• Operating within the AIE you do not have to
  register your economic activity, thanks to which
  you do not have to pay for social insurance
• We do book-keeping for your business
• We formulate contracts, give legal advice
• We get new, attractive commissions for your
• business as part of the Support Young Business
  campaign
• We offer an office for you to use
• We gain resources for the functioning of your
  business grants, scholarships, credits,
  financing from capital investors
• We organize trainings for you to manage your
  business efficiently
• Our staff of experts watches over your business
  and its development

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Firms within AIE

• Vivento Infobrokers
• Thanks to functioning within the
  entrepreneurship incubator, my info broker agency
  can grow without unnecessary financial burdens or
  administrative difficulties, I can focus on my
  main activity, and not on official formalities. I
  believe that AIE is the best solution for people
  who want to start their own business.
• Wojciech Erdman, owner of Vivento Infobrokers
• www.vivento.pl

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Firms within AIE

• Moka Design
• The status of a grantee, apart from a legal
  personality, gave me a possibility of using legal
  help, essential support from the AIE Director, a
  possibility of concentrating on business
  development, and security which stems from the
  avoidance of many mistakes often present in the
  initial stage of economic activity. My firm
  received many valuable commissions, mainly owing
  to the strong PR of AIE, which now allow me to
• accomplish myself and accomplish my dreams.
• Monika Blaszkowska, owner of Moka Design
• www.mokadesign.com.pl

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Firms within AIE

• Mebel Projekt
• The Incubator helps eliminate all formal
  inconveniences connected with functioning of a
  new business. Thanks to this, all energy can be
  directed towards goals strategic for the
  enterprise AIE takes care of all the rest
  accountancy, creation of contracts, promoting the
  offer. Our business is in the moment of gaining
  full maturity and independence. But it is AIE
  that made it possible for our firm to come into
  existence and to begin a fast and efficient
  struggle for its place in the market.
• Tomek Bielecki and Rafal Grudziaz - Mebel
  Projekt
• www.beds.pl

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Firms within AIE

• RoboCamp
• Our business is based on a passion. The
  development of this passion is great fun and
  valuable training to us. In AIE we can fully
  engage into things that fascinate us, and earn
  money, while most of the burdens connected with
  running a business, such as legal contracts and
  financial
• calculations, are taken up by the Incubator.
• Wojciech Syrocki, owner of RoboCamp
• www.robocamp.pl

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AIE Initiatives- Business plan competition

• The biggest contest for business ideas in Poland
• 3 editions of the contest
• 15 local editions
• 1440 business plans
• Patronage of the Prime
• Minister of the Republic of
• Poland
• The Chapter of the Contest consists of the
  greatest authorities in the field of business and
  entrepreneurship
• Prizes a mobile office, consultations with best
  Polish entrepreneurs, postgraduate business
  studies.
• www.biznesplany.pl

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AIE Initiatives- Support Young Business

• Goal convincing entrepreneurs and the society
  that young firms can accomplish business errands
  in an inexpensive and professional way.
• First edition year 2006
• Gaining of 14 big errands
• The Lion of Young Business Statuette
• The Tiger of Young Business Statuette
• www.mlodybiznes.pl

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AIE Initiatives- Hire the Disabled

• All Poland social campaign
• Intensive campaign promoting the project
• - 48 000 inserts
• - 10 000 leaflets
• - 8 000 folders
• 16 media patronages
• 24 interactive meetings with entrepreneurs in the
  regional BBC lodges
• Goal reaching the greatest number of employers
  and introducing them with the possibilities of
• preferential hiring of disabled people
• www.zatrudnijniepelnosprawnego.pl

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AIE Initiatives- Enterprising Poland

• Goals and tasks of this project
• Promotion of entrepreneurship and a change in
  mentality
• Integration of projects which aim at developing
  entrepreneurship in Poland
• Elaboration and initiation of legal and
  educational solutions, which aim at realizing the
  mission of the program
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• www.polskaprzedsiebiorcza.pl

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AIE Initiatives- Business Starters

• A first Polish fair for young entrepreneurs
• 1st edition gathered 2000 participants
• 2nd edition May 9, 2007, in the
• Warsaw School of Economics
• Presentation of offers available
• on the market for young businesses
• Enabling direct contact with the representatives
  of chief organizations and institutions which
  support the creation and development of
  enterprises.
• www.starterybiznesu.pl

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The future of AIE

• The creation of Young Entrepreneurship Centers
• The creation of a Seed Capital Fund and a Bank
  for Small Enterprises
• The creation of a newspaper for young
  entrepreneurs
• Advice in business plan writing

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Academic Incubators of Entrepreneurship

• Dariusz Zuk
• President of Academic Incubators
• of Entrepreneurship
• dariusz.zuk_at_inkubatory.pl
• 48 (22) 356 21 11
• Academic Incubators of Entrepreneurship
• Al. Jerozolimskie 53 / 1a , 00-697 Warszawa
• 48 (22) 356 21 11, fax [phone]
• e-mail biuro_at_inkubatory.pl
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