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JIC is a leading public innovation agency in the Czech Republic supporting the creation and growth of innovative enterprises. Each year JIC supports around 100 early-stage and mature companies and invests almost 2 million euro in the development of local innovation ecosystem. JIC coordinates a network of regional innovation agencies Ynovate which currently covers more than half of the Czech regions. JIC also coordinates the Regional Innovation Strategy of the South Moravian region and implements some of the strategy support measures through its programmes.
JIC’s founders and shareholders are the South Moravian regional government, the City of Brno, Brno University of Technology, Masaryk University, Mendel University in Brno and Veterinary and Pharmaceutical University of Brno, each having an equal share of one sixth. As such JIC is connected to all actors representing regional authorities responsible for innovation, investment or the development of the region.
JIC has more than 20 years of experience in supporting entrepreneurs and businesses in all stages of development and has by far the most comprehensive set of services. The services cover the entire spectrum from promotion of entrepreneurship, through support of first ideas, early stage start-ups with validated business model to a growing businesses scaling to global markets. The portfolio of companies collaborating with JIC on a permanent basis reaches some 400 while many more use its services on an ad hoc basis. JIC has successfully implemented a business coaching programme based on Swiss Platinn programme, including the key account management and portfolio of 80+ experts whose main task with cooperation of the company´s management is to identify the key problems preventing the company from development, plan the needed changes and implement them. JIC also runs a small very early stage investment vehicle called JIC VENTURES.
JIC has been successfully developing the regional innovation ecosystem by bringing together young and established companies, investors, research centres and public institutions at the local, regional, national and international levels.
Since 2003 JIC has supported 300+ companies which employ more than six thousand people and generate more than €1 billion revenues.
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