FIZ successfully offered its consulting knowledge in a European bidding contest to support a new technology center in the Wielkopolska region of Poland and was selected by the Wielkopolska Ministry of Economics.

The extensive specialist knowledge proven in practice, which FIZ offered as an all-around provider, proved to be convincing:  from the individual conceptual design, through the implementation of a market-oriented concept, to establishing and financing a suitable infrastructure with the associated cluster management. Wielkopolska, the Polish heartland – with the state capital and trade fair center Posen, 3.3 million inhabitants and 90,000 students – plans to expand its regional economic structure and to tap the diverse potential of technology-oriented company start-ups with the new innovation center. The first step was to develop a concept for setting up a marketable technology center in the field of aviation as a public-private partnership. 

FIZ supported the conceptual orientation of the Polish technology center and the facility planning, as well as working out the optimal contractual, financing and tenant structure. Following an on-site review, specific recommendations were developed. They included the basic concept of the technology center, the configuration of the infrastructure – from the user structure to the spatial concept – as well as setting up industry-specific clusters. The recommendations were developed with alternative contractual structures, possible financing concepts and model calculations. FIZ presented the results at a press conference held in the Polish city of Kalisz. Today they form the basis for the next planning steps of the government in Wielkopolska.