BIT Tuzla

Business Innovation and Technology Centre of Tuzla

Establish a sustainable and local managed business innovation centre in Tuzla city in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The business innovation centre contains two main operations:

  1. A business incubator targeting ICT entrepreneurs through helping to establish new enterprises and connecting to international ICT companies and markets in order to build competence and new businesses. This activity includes operation of a seed capital fund.
  2. A business service office (Center of New Technologies) targeting market development mainly for ICT businesses in the BiH, including project management and commercialization of R&D projects.

Project Staff
Torkel Ystgaard, Project Manager
Svein Almli, Robert Martic, Vedrana Ajanovic, and Geir Reiersen and Eirik Lysø from SIVA.

Project Partners
SINTEF in cooperation with SIVA.

Client is the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The project period is 2004-2008.


Published May 19, 2006