New ScanBalt member!We would like to welcome the Pomeranian Science and Technology Park (PSTP) in Gdynia, Poland, as a new member of ScanBalt.

The Pomeranian Science and Technology Park (PSTP) in Gdynia, an idea primarily inspired by professor Anna J. Podhajska (1938 — 2006), was created in the year 2001 as a joined initiative of the Pomeranian Technology Centre association and the City of Gdynia. The task of managing the development of the park and the concentrated within it innovative projects was handed over to the Gdynia Innovation Centre, a budgetary unit under the auspices of the City Hall.

The main target for the PSTP is to concentrate all kinds of activities, crucial for economic development of Pomeranian Region as well as to stimulate co-operation between universities and companies, especially in the field of technology transfer and development of entrepreneurship. The main beneficiaries of the whole idea are regional entrepreneurs and universities. This leads to growth of economic indicators in the Pomeranian region, which of course is also beneficial to the whole regional society.

In the course of its six year long existence the Pomeranian Science&Technology Park (PSTP) has managed to develop a modern infrastructure designed to serve as a basis for innovative entrepreneurial activities. PSTP mission is to identify promising innovative ideas, supporting and encouraging commercialization of innovative technologies. The Park staff (23 persons) utilizes its experience and expertise to provide new business perspectives for companies, a favorable infrastructure and a creative environment through the services and consulting. PSTP assists in the creation and strengthening of relationships between Polish and foreign business partners as well as R&D and business related institutions. In this role, PSTP acts as accelerator of innovation and facilitator of growth. It promotes innovation and achievements of PSTP inhabitants as well as sustainable business development.

Within the national and international cooperation and projects, PSTP enforces and builds various relations between institutions and organizations connected with innovation and technology transfer.

The offer of the PSTP is targeted at small and medium enterprises, especially in the biotechnology and environmental protection, ICT, industrial design sectors. The Park is also engaged in cooperation with universities, technical universities, centers of technology transfer, other parks and other institutions connected with entrepreneurship supporting and innovations.

The located in PSTP Biotechnological Laboratory – Bio-Lab Centre serves as a strategic element of PSTP – the infrastructure which Gdynia is delighted to offer to entrepreneurs and scientists dealing with biotechnology and environment protection issues.