CHIC
Support and representation
Within the ISC group, the development of innovative projects runs parallel with the support in respect of premises for operation and infrastructure. The start-up companies are invited to settle down in the building of the Central Hungarian Innovation Centre and a technology incubator, while enterprises being in a later stage of business growth can find their home in the Budaörs Industrial and Technology Park, where ISC Group is located.
The ISC group is represented by ValDeal Innovation Zrt. as member in the European Business Innovation Centres Network (EBN). The president of the group is the Hungarian member of the Business Chamber of the Entreprise Policy Group of the European Commission, representing the Hungarian SMEs, so as Foundational Sponsor of the Knowledge4Innovation initiative. As initiator, the group hosts the Secretariat of the Association of Competitive SMEs of Hungary.
CHIC is located in the Budaörs Industrial and Technology Park - BITEP. The park is situated 5 kilometres from Budapest, next to the Buda Landscape Conservation Territory. The 55-hectare area of BITEP is uniquely situated in a forest, with landscape-protection areas around it. The protection of the environment has an emphasized role in the operation of the park both because of the environment conscious attitude of the management and the surrounding protected areas. BITEP was awarded the honorable title Integrator Industrial Park in 2002.
The developer of the Budaörs Industrial and Technology Park is the Budaörs ISC Ltd.
The services of the Budaörs ISC Ltd. are:
- SME interactive networking (SME broker network)
- Information and other services
- Consultancy, enterprise due diligence
- Environment protection services
- IT services
- Real estate development
- Real estate management
- Event/conference organization
- Building networks
- Insurance cluster
- More than 30 transferred services
The aim of the CHIC Central Hungarian Innovation Centre - which is a member of the ISC Group, and is also located in the BITEP - is to ensure up-to-date infrastructure and environment for small and medium sized enterprises operating in the Central Hungarian Region, furthermore to provide services for alleviating the innovation activities.
To achieve these aims, the CHIC helps the development of the innovative SMEs on the following fields:
- Ensuring an up-to integrator, helping the starting, mainly spin-off enterprises with reduced price renting possibilities.
- Fulfilling a bridge role, that is forming living connections between the following entities: SMEs, universities, research institutes, government, municipalities.
- As service provider and service agent company provides high level full service for ensuring the operation and innovation activities of the SMEs.
The CHIC established and the Renewable Energy Competence Centre, which aims at helping the co-operation of the SMEs dealing with use of the renewable energy sources.
The Central Hungarian Region
The Region plays central role in education and research in Hungary. Most of the leading universities are located in this Region, e.g. the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, the Eötvös Loránd University, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, the Semmelweis University or the Szent István University. The role of the Region is especially important in the education of economists, doctors, engineers and artists. More than half of the country's higher education students in these fields study in the Region, and nearly half of the country's agriculture, natural sciences and law students graduate from here.
The Central Hungarian Region plays a determinant role in research and development: approximately two-third of national funds, allocated for these purposes, is invested in this region. While Budapest is regarded as a centre of the R&D activities, Gödöllô is a research basis for agricultural sciences.
Regional Innovation Agency - INNOREG Consortium
The aim of the consortium is to build up a network from the innovation supporting organizations by drawing in further cooperating partners and to coordinate their work. The activities and services of the agency are based on the accepted regional innovation strategy and aim the region to become one of the important European centres of the product and technology innovation in a narrow and wider sense through remarkable infrastructural and human resource developments.
The members of the consortium are:
- Infopark Ltd. (Technological and Informatical Innovation Park Ltd.)
- Budapest Enterprise Agency
- CHIC Central Hungarian Innovation Centre NpC.
- Business Innovation Centre Gödöllő
- INNOSTART National Business and Innovation Centre
- Pest County Foundation for Enterprise Promotion
- Pro Régió Agency Central Hungary Regional Development Agency Ltd.
SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT INNOVATION ORGANISATIONS IN THE REGION:
INNOSTART National Business and Innovation Centre (BIC)
The role of Innostart is to identify promising innovative ideas and projects and to facilitate their realisation. This is achieved through the provision of high value added services which help innovative enterprises to enter the market and gain strength in the marketplace.
Innostart BIC is a member of the European Business Network. It provides incubation for innovative SMEs, Enterprise management and mediation between enterprises and Business Angels.
INNOTECH Innovation Park Ltd.
INNOTECH Innovation Park Ltd. is the technology transfer company of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), 62% owned by BME, 38% owned by the municipality of the 11th district of Budapest. The main objective of the company is the promotion of technological development using first of all the intellectual base at the BME.
Activities of INNOTECH Ltd.:
- Operates an innovation park within its own premises (9000 m2) with all the services of a typical business incubator. This innovation park functions also as a technology centre with the appropriate services.
- It developed a structural model of a park functioning as a virtual business incubator. INNOTECH provides incubation services for professionals working at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
- Based on its 20 years experience, INNOTECH contributes to the development of enterprises and regional economy and supports with knowledge and services the creation of industrial parks, technology centres, business incubators and the their networks.
MOST IMPORTANT SERVICES
- Euro Office Essential
As a new EBN member and a beginner in the Euro Office network we have chosen the Euro Office Esential leaving the door open for widening our profile. According to the specifications we can provide a beautiful office with all the necessary furniture, a desk PC with Internet access or Wireless lap-top access. The printing capacity in the building is excellent including a colour printing machine. As for conference capacity there are two conference rooms in the incubator building for six person, one for eight person and a conference hall for up to one hundred person all equipped with the necessary and most up to date video capacity.
It is self understanding that nevertheless we have chosen one option only our GGN clients are most welcome by our companies and they can use their services according to the usual business terms.
These services are outlined herebelow separated by companies of the Budaörs ISC Group, out of which ValDeal is the EBN Member company; the BIC.
Budaörs ISC Ltd. SME development services | CHIC Central Hungarian Innovation Centre NpC. Innovation Centre services | ValDeal Innovation Zrt. Innovation management services |
▪ Property development of industrial parks | ▪ Education and training | ▪ Deal flow of innovative projects |
▪ Development and management of business incubator houses | ▪ research (CHRC Central Hungarian Enterprise Development and Innovation Research Centre) | ▪ business planning and market evaluation |
▪ Development and management of innovation centres | ▪ assistance in applying for grants for SMEs | ▪ development of business strategy |
▪ SME networking | ▪ Renewable Energy Competence Centre (RECC) | ▪ technology transfer |
▪ Consulting, information services for SMEs | ▪ Open Source Software Competence Centre (OCC) | ▪ business training of inventors, enterpreneurs |
▪ event organisation |
| ▪ fund raising and investment management |
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| ▪ management of international market entry |
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| ▪ know-how transfer |
MOST IMPORTANT LINKS
Central Hungarian Region - www.proregio.hu
Central Hungarian Regional Innovation Agency - www.innoreg.hu
Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry - www.bkik.hu
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Pest County - www.pmkik.hu
Gödöllő Innovation Centre - www.gik.hu
Budapest Enterprise Agency - www.bvk.hu
INNOSTART National Business and Innovation Centre - www.innostart.hu
Infopark Ltd. (Technological and Informatical Innovation Park Ltd.) - www.infopark.hu
Pest County Foundation for Enterprise Promotion - www.pmva.hu
Association of Industrial Parks - www.ipe.hu
Hungarian Association for Innovation - www.innovacio.hu