The establishment of STP Belgrade in 2015 was supported through the project “Science and Technology Park Belgrade – a new export instrument of Serbia” with the support of the Government of the Swiss Confederation (State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO). The holder and implementer of the project wsd the Business Technology Incubator of Technical Faculties Belgrade-BITF (now part of STP Belgrade in charge of incubation), which established and developed the first functional science and technology park in Serbia. The main goal of the support of the Government of the Swiss Confederation was for STP Belgrade to grow into an export instrument of Serbia, which will help strengthen its competitive position on the world market of smart products and services.

Today, STP Belgrade is recognized as a growing technological core of the region, with support programs that encourage and enable innovation and technological development, encouraging young people to technological entrepreneurship (it develops more than 70 startups and technological development companies that employ over 750 engineers, and annually generate revenue in excess of EUR 20 million, of which over 60% comes from exports).

Thanks to the well-achieved results in the establishment of STP Belgrade on the previous project, the Government of the Swiss Confederation will support at the initiative of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, with 3.5 million euros further development of innovations and creation of a network of science and technology parks in Serbia. development of technology parks ”. The project started at the end of 2019, and will be coordinated by STP Belgrade for four years.

The goal of the Project “Technopark Serbia 2 – Encouraging Exports through the Development of Technology Parks” is to increase the competitiveness of the high technology industry of Serbia, export growth and employment through the development of a network of science and technology parks, to encourage more young people for technological entrepreneurship and new startups.
During the project:
– The model and support capacities of the Science and Technology Park Belgrade startup and technological development companies will be further improved,
– The acquired knowledge and experience of NTP Belgrade will be transferred to Nis and Cacak in order to accelerate the development of science and technology parks in them and in these regions to create conditions for the accelerated development of new technological, export-oriented companies,
– The development and implementation of a new pre-seed program (which includes financing and support for startups in terms of knowledge and skills development) will support the establishment and development of a total of 100 new startup companies in Belgrade, Nis and Cacak,
– Thanks to the cooperation of the Swiss Federal Institute for Intellectual Property (IPI) and the Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Serbia, the old people will be especially supported in the field of intellectual property rights.

Such models of support will help the country’s regional development in the field of innovation and will encourage young people to technological entrepreneurship, changing their view of innovation, the world of startups and the opportunities offered to them in their own region. Through various trainings and mentoring support, they will acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to develop their innovations (MVPs) faster and enter the global market.
With the new project, including the previous phase, the Government of the Swiss Confederation is investing a total of EUR 4,520,000 in the development of technology parks in Serbia (EUR 1,070,000 for phase I and EUR 3,450,000 for phase II).