Technology Development Centre Osijek Ltd.

Acronym
TDCO
Description

The Technology Development Centre Osijek Ltd. (TERA Technopolis) was established in 2002 as a result of an initiative of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, the City of Osijek and Osijek-Baranja County. The activities of the Technology Development Centre Osijek are to promote new technology, invention and entrepreneurship especially focusing on the correlation of science and economy and the creation of infrastructural, financial and counselling support to inventive and technology projects.
The Josip Juraj Strossmayera University of Osijek, the Ministry of Science Education and Sports and the local government are the main supporters of efforts to create favourable conditions to fast and successful transformation of research results and inventions into new competitive products and international technology transfer in small and medium enterprise.
Business incubation of technology-based enterprise, counselling and monitoring in regional economy are the main instruments of the implementation of TDCO’s task.
The TERA Technopolis mission:
• The development of knowledge-based economy implementing significantly improved technologies (products, services and processing) in Osijek County.
• The commercialization of public funded research by Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek.
• The support of regional development and prevention of brain drain of competent experts of the region (Slavonia i.e. traditional region in Croatia).
• The promotion of enterprises in the business incubator of The TDCO Ltd. and outside companies.

The TERA provides two groups of services, defined services Start up and Business Growth and provides individual services in the field of intellectual property rights, intermediation in pre-commercial and commercial phase. At the moment there are twenty business enterprises in TERA center, among them business entities from computer programming is largest population.

Contact Person:
Ivan Štefanić, Director
E-mail: ured@tera.hr

Further contact details are provided below.

Type
  • Cluster/Incubator/Innovation Infrastructure
Country
Croatia
Contact details
E-Mail: ured@tera.hr
Address: Trg Ljudevita Gaja 631000 , 31000
Country:Croatia
Geographical focus
  • Croatia
Scientifc field / Thematic focus
  • Engineering and Technology

Entry created by Elke Dall on July 4, 2008
Modified on April 18, 2017