National Stadium to house start-ups

Business accelerator firm BusinessLink will launch an incubator for start-ups at the National Stadium in Warsaw. On Wednesday, the company signed an agreement with the stadium’s operator, PL 2012+. BusinessLink will manage an area of 5,000 sqm in the interiors of the stadium, where up to 1,000 young enterprises may be based. The first companies are due to move in in late May or early June. “This will be the biggest business accelerator in the world, bringing together the best Polish start-ups,” said Dariusz Żuk, president and founder of BusinessLink. “We want Poland to be associated with entrepreneurship,” he added. The formal start-up recruitment process will be launched in March. However, talks with companies are already in progress. The project is financed with a PLN 6 million subsidy from the EU-funded Innovative Economy Operational Programme.