For Friday, April 8, we have prepared a Startup Breakfast for you where our guest will be the founder of the Infostud Group, CEO & Co-Owner Branimir Gajić!
We will talk with the Infostud founder about the path of an idea which started from a “garage”, and today is a group of 6 businesses in 3 fields with 280 employees on the Serbian market. Branimir will talk to us about what they have learned, what their greatest successes and errors were, which phases the company went through, and how much technology has influenced their development.
Branimir Gajić graduated from the Faculty of Economy in Subotica. At the age of fifteen, he started working as a member of a youth community first, and during his studies he did lots of jobs, from selling telephones and insurances, publishing local newspapers, and holding practice lessons to students. His first job was in the ProCredit bank where he started from the position of a loan officer and reached the position of the Regional Director for Vojvodina. During that time, he initiated an entrepreneurial project with his sister Branislava Gajić Stanojević and his partner Stefan Salo, known today as the “Infostud Group.” Today, it is a company that has 280 employees and a portfolio of businesses – from education and employment, through selling cars and real estate, to insurance.
On Wednesday, March 23 at 12:00, the announcement of the second contest for granting a million dollar grant within the StarTech innovation support program will be held!
The grant will be dedicated to all startup companies, entrepreneurs, micro, small, and medium enterprises with innovative business ideas!
If you have an innovative solution or wish to transform your business by introducing new technologies, apply and perhaps you will be a StarTech star!
See you then!
How do innovative ideas form and in what way are they transferred in practice?
Where and how does one find resources for financing and developing startups?
These are only some of the questions we will raise at the first workshop in the series “Valorization of Knowledge EU” realized by the EU Info Point Niš and the Science and Technology Park Niš.
The first workshop will be held on Thursday, March 17 at 12:00 in hybrid form – live at STP Niš with an online broadcast.
By using concrete examples from practice, our lecturers will bring how the innovative ecosystem functions closer to workshop participants, give useful advice and suggestions, and bring knowledge transfer closer with technology.
The people who will share their experience with us are:
- Dr. Ivan Rakonjac, director of the Innovation Fund
- Dane Atanasković, consultant/mentor
- Stefanija Lukić, “Just Smart” entrepreneur
We are expecting you!
The Technology Park Varaždin is a dynamic community of entrepreneurs, innovators, mentors, and creative people, and by combining experience and top notch infrastructure, it offers its members support in business development, which contributes to the social and economic growth of the Varaždin region and the Republic of Croatia as a whole. Within the technology park, there is also the Makerspace – a joint coworking space for fast prototyping and physical product production.
At this week’s Startup Breakfast, we will have the opportunity to hear about examples of good practice from Karlo Kukec, director of the Technology Park Varaždin, and Ivan Todorović, director of Makerspace Varaždin. With them, we will talk about the very creation of the TechPark Varaždin community, the building of the Makerplace, various current programs, as well as the self-sustainability model of the TechPark.
For more than 10 years, Karlo Kukec has been working on programs that provide various forms of support to entrepreneurs, and he also participated in the implementation of over 30 projects financed by the EU. He had the role of project partner and manager of the project itself. He is one of the founders of the Voogle initiative and the Voogle accelerator. He is the leader of the Voogle conference organizational team and the Fast Track to Chicagoland program, which was selected as the best support program for the year 2017 at the international conference on business incubation held in Seattle in April 2017.
In 2016, Ivan Todorović founded the company “IT Media” headquartered in the Technology Park Varaždin. From the very beginning, as part of the TechPark tenant community, he has been included in the creation, development, and formation of the workshop, as well as the procurement of necessary equipment. Ivan gives education on 3D modeling and 3D scanning, as well as work on the CO2 laser.
We await you on Friday, March 11 at 10:00 in the VIP meeting room on the third floor of the Science and Technology Park Niš.
The week of open data will be held from March 21 to March 25 and until noon on March 10, you have the opportunity to recommend an event that will be held during this week!
Hurry up and state what your innovative ideas and recommendations which will meet the needs of the community gathered around the open data idea are!
The idea can be recommended by civil society organizations, media, scientific research institutions and companies, and UNDP and the Office for Information Technologies and eGovernment will compensate for the direct expenses of the organization of the selected events.
The estimated amount for this support is 2500 USD.
