Startup Platform - Central Innovation Accelerator "Mazovian StartUPolis" is a project that will be implemented jointly by innovation centres from Mazovia, i.e. Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Exploitation Technology (Ł-ITEE), Warsaw University of Technology and University of Technology and Humanities in Radom and the Technology Industry Foundation. The aim of the project is to create favourable conditions for the creation and development of innovative enterprises in the area of Mazowieckie regional voivodeship in the following areas: production of machinery and equipment, energy, ecology and food and agri-food industry, through the implementation of a professional startup incubation program, aimed at supporting entrepreneurial people in the area of searching for a repeatable, scalable and profitable business model. The implementation of the project will take 3 years, during which 6 incubation cycles will be completed, and in each of them approx. 30 new companies. It is planned to prepare 180 startups for market entry based on the ‘24 steps of disciplined entrepreneurship’ methodology (building the axis of workshop work and stand-alone startup) and the ‘Quick Look’ methodology - taking into account the KTH Innovation Readiness Level model. Priority will be given to high-tech companies oriented in the industry in accordance with the above-mentioned smart specializations of Eastern Poland, including those requiring R&D support. Participation in the project will enable the start of the process of professional preparation of the new company to market the created innovative product / service. We offer participants the care of professional incubation managers and experts, legal assistance, accounting advice, specialized training and support of technologists with laboratories during the creation of a product / service, and for the best also internationalization (MITEF and EIT network of contacts). The project will help accelerate the convergence of the Mazovia region with the entire Macroregion and the rest of the country and is part of the New European Innovation Plan.
