BOND is a unique network of different types of entrepreneurial support institutions (ENTIs) whose task is to provide support to entrepreneurs. The BOND network represents a platform for the overall development of the capacity and quality of PPI services, and provides entrepreneurs with a unified approach to business knowledge, skills, partners, information and services important for starting and developing a business. In this way BOND is also positioned as a strategic partner to policy makers of development policies and measures for the development of entrepreneurship in Croatia.
Croatian Agency for SMEs, Innovations and Investments (HAMAG-BICRO) published the results Public call for expressions of interest for participation in the project "Development of a Network of Entrepreneurial Support Institutions (Entrepreneurial Support Institutions) – Phase 2’ (BOND 2). This is the occasion Rijeka Development Agency Porin ranked in fifth place according to the criterion of excellence out of a total of 58 registered entrepreneurial support institutions (Entrepreneurial Support Institutions) from the entire Republic of Croatia. Director of RRA Porin Dario Zorić pointed out that a high result was achieved thanks to years of experience of the agency, continuous activities in the field of encouraging the development of entrepreneurship in the region and the introduction of new entrepreneurial programs, and that participation in the BOND network will provide an even better service to end users.
The purpose of the BOND Network is to:
- Provide adequate business support to entrepreneurial support institutions in the Republic of Croatia within which entrepreneurs can use various services to improve their business;
- Encourage standardisation, specialisation and further development of entrepreneurial support institutions within the Network, within which entrepreneurs will be able to use the various specialised resources needed for their growth and development.
Members of the BOND Network differ according to the type and type of entrepreneurial support institutions: development agencies (local, regional and development agencies of certain activities), business centres, business incubators (entrepreneurial incubators, incubators for new technologies), business accelerators, technology parks, competence centres.
More about the BOND network in the next link.
