PARP: Poland has a chance to become a start-up hub

The Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PARP) wants to be involved in start-up environment integration, Puls Biznesu daily reported. Poland may become a start-up hub in the CEE, “a hub means a place of start-up activity, a center of meetings and funding. We have got this kind of potential,” the president of PARP Bożena Lublińska-Kasprzak said. Startup Poland Foundation is to be established and the PARP is considering establishing a sort of a conference and advisory center for start-ups, according to Lubińska-Kasprzak. “The most valuable ideas cannot be lost. Those new companies should develop and become brands around the world,” she pointed out. PARP assured that Polish start-ups will be supported by various regional and supra-regional financing programs. ”Every good idea will be able to gain funds from the public or the private sector for sure,” Lubińska-Kasprzak concluded.