Four company representatives and one moderator from JIC at each of several round tables. The representatives take turns of 15 minutes. Who sent them to this place? Global giants such as ABB, 3M and AcelorMittal. They are sitting opposite representatives from local research centres and start-ups who have 120 seconds to present their businesses. (The article is in German language.)
A Brno-based firm believes that a simple device they have designed could conserve major amounts of drinking water. The company, aptly named Watersavers, produces a faucet aerator which reduces water consumption by up to 80 percent while creating the illusion of a full water flow.
These global companies have their own “academy” in the region - the JIC. This centre creates unique and favourable environment for the upcoming Zuckerbergs of Central Europe. More than 120 startups have been supported via this organisation and its accelerator. (The article is in Italian language.)
Mautilus, based at JIC in Brno, South Moravia, signed a contract in January to produce key software applications for icflix, a Dubai-based streaming service described as the first of its kind in the Arab world.
Platform Braci detects sounds in the environment and delivers them as smartphone alerts for deaf and hearing-impaired people. The team has so far secured around £100,000 from various investors and won several awards, at Slush in Finland and Starcube in the Czech Republic.
The US Market Access Center of Menlo Park, California, is pleased to announce the opening of its first European office, located at the South Moravian Innovation Centre (JIC) in Brno, an agency that supports technical and scientific entrepreneurship.
You could witness several times that JIC has courage. We founded the first accelerator in the Czech Republic, we introduced innovation vouchers as well as the open innovation concept. This year has also kept us busy. We have a new JIC INMEC building and a successful JIC PLATINN programme. And how are our companies doing overcoming their own barriers? See for yourselves!
