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entrepreneurs with the realization of their
entrepreneurial projects;
• Opening new workplaces and encouraging
the development of new, export-oriented
products that are competitive on the
international market;
• Helping innovators and young entrepreneurs in
the realization and commercialization of their
innovations and entrepreneurial projects;
• Creation of positive atmosphere in the
society for the development of entrepreneurship
and product development, and
product development;
• The development of professional, technical
and business confidence in the conditions
of globalization.
The goals and tasks of TPZ:
• Participation in achieving the objectives
of the Encouragement program for the
development of the small businesses of the
City of Zagreb;
• Expanding productive and technological
capabilities of Zagreb;
• Attracting new, modern, high, clean
and profitable technologies;
• Entrepreneurship encouragement and
the creation of small private companies
in the area of product and high
technology development;
• Attracting enterpreneurial and capable
professionals and enabling them to realize
their entrepreneurial ideas;
• Making connections between science,
innovation, business and market;
• Knowledge transfer from development
institutions to industry, that is, information
necessary for the development and
entrepreneurship;
• Helping innovators to become entrepreneurs,
etc.
Business Incubator Ltd. – BIOS
(http://www.inkubator.hr/) in Osijek. Mission
of BIOS is supporting the development of small
and medium enterprises through the provision
of business premises and provision of business
and other services in the most critical stages of
enterprise development and thus participating
in economic development of the region and
unemployment reduction in the region. BIOS
objectives are:
• To participate in the economic development
of the region;
• To promote local entrepreneurship and help
with the development of new enterprises;
• To increase the number of enterprises
that continue to operate successfully
on the market;
• To reduce the likelihood of collapse of
start-up companies;
• To reduce the time required for the
establishment and growth of the enterprise
and make these processes more cost efficient;
• To provide business, technical, educational
and other services to incubator clients and
small and medium enterprises in the region;
• To encourage innovation and development
of new technologies;
• To encourage the commercialization of
scientific research;
• To reduce unemployment and retain
qualified workforce in the country;
• To open opportunities for young professionals
and accelerate the creation
of innovation;
• Cooperation of enterprises based on
knowledge with the regional academic
community;
• Research commercialization and technology
transfer;
• Substitution of imported products
with domestic ones, and education
of enterpreneurs, i.e. adoption of
appropriate professional skills and
abilities.
4.2.3. Bosnia and Herzegovina
In the period 2005-2009, Bosnia and Herzegovina
(BiH) recorded significant progress in the Bologna
process implementation. The biggest merit for
this goes to the state Universities in BiH, the