Presentation by

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Presentation by
www.gica.com.mk

• Gica Business Incubator Ohrid, Republic of
  Macedonia
• Ljupco Ivanoski CEO

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Introduction

• Gica Incubator is an initiator for development
  and supporting small businesses in Ohrid region.
  Its founded by Gica DOO Ohrid and Agency
  for Promotion of Entrepreneurship of Macedonia
  (APERM). It has excellent business premises with
  3000 m2 (before long 4000 m2) including 20
  business premises with Workshops, Offices,
  Toilets, Fine illumination and ventilation,
  Telephone lines and Internet connections. It has
  Conference Room for the clients with presentation
  equipment, asphalted side roads and parking lots,
  24 hours security, maintained gardens and parks
  and highest hygienic and environmental standards.
• Once placed in the industrial zone, the company,
  nowadays, due to the grown of the town, is
  located in the central region of Ohrid
• The incubator is excellent instrument for
  direction of entrepreneurial spirit,
  inventiveness and modest investments in the
  creation of self owned successful business and
  new employments
• Business incubator communicates with other
  Business Start-up Centers and incubators in
  Macedonia and with representatives of
  international community, however its not include
  in regional networking to date

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General info on Gica Business Incubator Ohrid,
Macedonia

• Facts and figures
• The incubator is run by incubator manager
  project manager with strong support from the
  staff at main Company GICA DOO
• The incubator provides following services superb
  business premises at affordable fees conference
  room services at privileged prices, import and
  export documents training programs, loans for
  the incubators members, cooperation with the
  founder including engaging the members in
  execution of works for the founder and finding
  them new business partners
• The annual budget for 2005 was 53640 EUR
• The GICA business incubator is established in
  2001 in Ohrid
• Our Incubator is example for efficiently used
  funds to Start-up new small and medium businesses
  (28 companies in 5 years), creation of the new
  vacancies (more than 220 employees) and
  revitalisation of the ruined business capacities

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Economic environment of the centre / incubator

• The following branches of business and industry
  are supported by the Incubator companies for
  design and production of furniture, cardboard
  boxes and plastic containers, irony objects,
  woodworking, shoes, aluminous doors and windows,
  textile and electronic, as well as civic
  associations of the organic food producers
• The supported business are located within the
  incubator and have local, national and, several
  companies, international outreach (working for
  Italian, German and Greek market)
• The supported business have 2-20 employees

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Lessons learned

• Top 5 achievements
• Successful pilot project in order to direct the
  entrepreneurial spirit, inventiveness and modest
  investments in the creation of self owned
  successful business and new employments. The
  special emphasis is given to support
  women-entrepreneurs, members of minorities in
  Macedonia and people with special needs.
• Cooperation between foreign investor (World Bank)
  and private business (Gica DOO Ohrid) via Agency
  for Promotion of Entrepreneurship of Macedonia
  (APERM)
• Promotion of successful Business Incubator
  Concept in the country
• Inspiration for private investors to duplicate
  incubator concept into the creation of other
  private-owned Business Incubators
• Efficiently used funds to create, develop and
  support small businesses

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Lessons learned

• Top 5 (past or future) challenges
• Struggle to encourage state agency (Agency for
  Promotion of Entrepreneurship) and foreign
  investor (World Bank) to support private company
  (Gica DOO Ohrid) in the establishment and
  development of the first Business Incubator in
  Ohrid region through trust building process
• Troubles in the promotion of Business Incubator
  Concept in the region as new concept for
  development and supporting of small businesses
  and possibility for creation of new vacancies
• Reaching the balance between old incubators
  members which are providers of secure income for
  the incubator and new one which are users of the
  loans and credits need to extend the incubator
  phase for the members
• Need of external support via grants and credit
  lines in order to materialize visions for further
  development of the Business Incubator in order to
  increase the general technological level of the
  incubator with introduction of the companies
  dealing with modern technology and information
  sciences and expansion of the incubator
  capacities
• Need of external support in the development of
  all of the incubator services completely

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Regional cooperation

• Our proposals for regional cooperation of a SEE
  Business Start-up / incubators are
• Creation of the Regional Network with Internet
  portal in order to exchange expertise and
  experience between network members and
  possibilities for further development of
  incubator concept
• This network should provide and promote detailed
  information for its members (Incubators and
  Start-up centers), including the information for
  the companies-clients of the incubators in order
  to foster and facilitate collaboration and
  business deals between companies from the
  different countries in the region
• Regarding our GICA Business Incubator we need
  support to materialize our ambitions to expand
  into Regional center for development of SM
  companies for Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo with
  conference centre (with presentation and
  translation equipment) and intellectual incubator
  - training centre for entrepreneurs and creator
  of the effective link between education and
  business

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GICA BUSINES INCUBATOR OHRID
www.gica.com.mk
Address Zeleznicka 16, 6000 Ohrid Email
gica_inkubator_at_mt.net.mk Phone [phone],
389 46 231 781 Fax [phone]
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HOW WE TURN THE PROBLEM INTO THE EXEMPLAR
EXTERNAL VIEW TO THE OBJECTS BEFORE RESTORATION
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HOW WE TURN THE PROBLEM INTO THE EXEMPLAR
INTERNAL VIEW TO THE OBJECTS BEFORE RESTORATION
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FROM VISION TO REALITY NOWDAYS LOOK OF THE
INCUBATOR
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GICA INKUBATOR AN INITIATOR FOR DEVELOPMENT
AND SUPPORTING SMALL BUSINESSES IN OHRID REGION