RUDA SLASKA BUSINESS INCUBATOR

Ruda Slaska Business Incubator is a partnership in wich the City of Ruda Slaska holds a 100 % share. The head office and the main premises of Ruda Slaska Business Incubator are located at 38 Karola Goduli Street in Ruda Slaska. RSBI branch premises are located at ul. Szyb Walenty 32 in Ruda Slaska.

RIP founding patrons:

• The City of Ruda Slaska

• The Silesian University of Technology (Gliwice)

• The Medical University of Silesia

• The Upper Silesian Agency of Business Transformation

• The Institute of Spatial and Kataster Systems (Gliwice)

Ruda Slaska Business Incubator (RSBI) is a new, attractively localized addition to business map of the Silesian Viovodeship. RSBI offers 5300 m2 of office and warehouse space in the centre of the Silesian agglomeration, with easy access to the DTS express road (15 mins to the centre of Katowice) as well as the A4 motorway.

In the modern air-conditioned complex, favourable conditions have been created for new, innovative companies and those dealing with producton and sales. Preferential conditions are available for office-space and equipment (furniture, computers) rental as well as advice in terms of obtaining EU funding, accounting, law and economics of small IT businesses.

The high standard of fittings, together with competitive rental rates (per m2) have resulted in an almost full utilisation of the entire available office and industrial/warehouse space by 20 companies, within short time of official opening of the RSBI (August 3, 2007).

RSBI offers on-site training programmes, professional advice for companies based at the Incubator. A modern 100-seat multimedia conference hall, as well as a professional training and development centre with 15 computer workstations are available for both tenants and outside clients. For the comfort of both tenants and guests, the "Stara Drukarnia" restaurant is also located on-site.

Mission Statement:

Our aim is to create favourable conditions for the establishment and development of innovative businesses, by guaranteeing support in terms of infrastructure, marketing, personnel and finance, as well as additional services. Our aim is to:

• offer support for the establishment and development of innovative companies,

• create favourable conditions for economic development based on expertise,

• initiate inter-regional and international enterprise cooperation,

• offer training and professional development opportunities and career-change prospectives,

• create favourable conditions for the establishment of small and medium businesses,

• increase the potential in the field of Research and Development,

• create administrative frameworks enabling cooperation between companies and institutes of higher education in the region,

• create and implement IT development projects.

Ruda Slaska Business Incubator offer:

• rental of office, industrial and warehouse space,

• Virtual Office (no rent / no staff, low cost mailing addess, special extra services),

• landline and broadband connections,

• state-of-the art multimedia conference halls,

• air-conditioning,

• 24-hour site access,

• guarded parking for 150 cars with individual, personalised parking reservation available,

• restaurant,

• 24-hour security and site monitoring.

Ruda Slaska Business Incubator services:

• free legal and administrative information services and advice - particularly in terms of enterprise establishment and sourcing outside funds,

• advice pertaining to the sourcing of funds from the European Union,

• free legal and accounting information, IT advice, aid in finding international business partners,

• free advertising of tenant companies on the RSBI website.