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The Pilsen Region, through the actors of the regional innovation ecosystem, supports innovative entrepreneurship, creates a favorable environment for the establishment of new innovative companies and the development of existing ones. All this is complemented by high-quality consulting services, constantly developing infrastructure and interesting offers for investors through a wide range of organizations and projects.
The Pilsen Region offers cutting-edge infrastructure in the form of research facilities, science and technology parks or co-working centers, as well as supportive acceleration and incubation programs, consultancy, or direct financial support.
These services and institutions aim at international companies looking for a research partner, university graduates wanting to develop their successful research outcome, innovators with the perfect idea for a start-up, researchers who need space for applied research, or companies with the potential to expand and grow.
The Centre of Robotics provides comprehensive support for technical education to talented young people aged 6 to 15, showing that technology can be fun. It guides children and teenagers along the entire journey — from inspiring classroom games and engaging hobby clubs, through secondary and university studies, to participation in innovative projects and even support in founding their own startups. The Centre of Robotics works with cutting-edge technologies, often not found even in commercial companies, and serves as a platform offering space, equipment, and topics for technical education.
More on www.centrumrobotiky.eu
SIT Port is a port for young talents, aspiring entrepreneurs, and startups with great ideas. SIT Port works with young people aged 15 and over, building on the work of the Centre of Robotics. It fosters a technical community and offers an ideal environment for developing and launching start-ups. It serves as a harbour for tech enthusiasts looking for a place to anchor, as well as for aspiring entrepreneurs drawn to the waters of business.
SIT Port creates a platform where technology fans meet professional mentors and various industry experts at engaging events and workshops, and it regularly organizes hackathons. Members of the community can use the SIT Port Garage facilities with cutting-edge technologies free of charge. Since 2023, SIT Port Cowork has been part of TechTower.
More on www.sitport.cz/en
TechTower is one of the most advanced technology parks in the Czech Republic. It offers facilities and offices for innovative companies, technology enthusiasts, programmers, and aspiring entrepreneurs, as well as coworking spaces and a multifunctional hall.
Located in the former Světovar Brewery, TechTower now features a unique testing water tank, the SeedUp Space with a café and stunning views, and a prototype workshop where ideas come to life. TechTower serves as a hub that hosts traditional festivals, a wide range of conferences, professional workshops, IoT academies, and hackathons.
More on www.techtower.cz/en
This fully equipped shared office space in the center of Pilsen, operated by the Pilsen Business and Innovation Center (BIC Plzeň), is primarily aimed at companies utilizing new technologies and innovations, such as virtual reality, big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Coworkers here have access not only to high-speed internet and office equipment—which is standard these days—but also to a meeting area, a kitchenette with coffee, and a relaxation zone. They can also use a shower, a locker room with storage space, or a wall-mounted pull-up bar for stretching, which is not something you see every day.
Most valuable, however, are the comprehensive consulting services offered by BIC Plzeň (Business Innovation Center Plzeň), which focuses primarily on aspiring entrepreneurs and startups. Selected coworkers even have the option of establishing a virtual office at Cowork BIC.
More on bic.cz/cowork (only CZ).
SIT Port is a hub for aspiring entrepreneurs who are drawn to the business world and are comfortable with new technologies, so it’s no surprise that the “sitky” coworking center is the perfect place for tech enthusiasts, where you’ll find digital nomads, programmers, graphic artists and designers, startup founders, and students. These modern shared offices, featuring a unique design, offer both fixed and flexible workspaces for individuals and larger teams, even on weekends.
Community members can also use call boxes for complete privacy during phone calls, a fully equipped lounge and kitchen, and take advantage of community and educational activities. SIT Port organizes workshops, hackathons, startup weekends, and even group breakfasts.
More on techtower.cz/en/cowork
The Přeštice Cultural and Community Center, located in the center of a town with a population of 7,000, 20 km south of Plzeň, offers a wide range of services, including shared office space for work and several halls for events. This proves that even a smaller town can provide the necessary facilities for the development of businesses and the local community. In the shared offices at the KKC, coworkers have access to a desk, chair, PC, internet, printer, scanner, projector, screen, and beverages.
More on kzprestice.cz (only CZ)
The Pilsen Science and Technology Park is located near the University of West Bohemia, in the Borská Pole Industrial Park, which is one of the most successful industrial zones in the Czech Republic. More than 14,000 m² of office, semi-industrial, and laboratory space form a modern infrastructure supporting research, development, and innovation, which benefits from a highly advantageous geographic location with direct highway connections to Prague and Germany (Nuremberg).
The proximity to and potential for collaboration with the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen is also crucial, both in terms of utilizing research capacities and accessing a qualified workforce. The complex has undergone significant development since 2005 and currently offers state-of-the-art facilities for both start-up and established innovative projects and companies, as well as an environment for applied research. Partners include the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, BIC Pilsen, and the Řež Research Center.
Více na www.vtpplzen.cz/en.
The Science and Technology Park in Dobřany near Pilsen offers production shops and office space including additional equipment to companies specializing in engineering and other industrial fields. In addition to first-rate facilities for their business, tenants will also receive financial support for laboratory analyses, tests, technical consultations, and other services provided by the research organization COMTES FHT.
More on www.vtpcomtes.cz/ (CZ only)
Cluster MECHATRONIKA is a functional platform for cooperation between businesses, research organizations, schools, and regional institutions. It offers support for knowledge and technology transfer, digitization, and the introduction and utilization of additive technologies. The cluster promotes Czech-Bavarian cooperation with the aim of establishing business partnerships.
More on www.klastrmechatronika.cz/en
The Smart Pilsen Region Cluster is a voluntary grouping striving to develop the concept of Smart Region in the Pilsen Region. It contributes to improving the quality of life by introducing new information technologies to public service organizations and creating conditions for their implementation. The cluster provides assistance in such areas as public safety, the environment, improving traffic in towns and villages, and facilitating access to health and social services. In addition to that, the cluster organizes seminars, lectures, conferences, and provides consulting and training. It also supports technical education in both secondary and primary schools.
More on chpk.cz (CZ only)
Technological Initiative Pilsen z.s.p.o. (TIP) brings together companies focused on manufacturing, technology, and innovation in the West Bohemia region. Its goal is to promote collaboration in research, development, and innovation, share know-how, and strengthen the competitiveness of regional industry. TIP also connects the business sector, academia, and public administration to jointly create an environment that attracts talent, new technologies, and entrepreneurship. Our goal is a competitive region where both companies and people thrive.
More on tipilsen.cz
The Biomedical Center is a part of the Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Pilsen, conducting cutting-edge research in such areas as the support, regeneration, and replacement of vital organs; infectious diseases (sepsis, antibiotic resistance of bacteria, prophylaxis of viral infection in transplantology); oncological research related to experimental surgery; biocompatibility; stem cell research; neurophysiology; and reproductive medicine. The Center has several international research teams.
More on biomedic.lfp.cuni.cz/en/
The Faculty of Health Care Studies of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen educates and prepares students for non-medical health professions and focuses primarily on practical application in teaching, including simulation rooms, laboratories and simulation centers. For example, it has an exceptional simulation center equipped with an ambulance simulator and a top-notch skiagraph.
It emphasizes the development of foreign cooperation, improving the quality of studies through foreign student internships, foreign mobility of academics and the arrival of foreign experts.
More on fzs.zcu.cz
Západočeská univerzita v Plzni disponuje čtyřmi výzkumnými centry, která se dlouhodobě věnují vývoji a inovacím pro průmyslové aplikace.
Since 2000, the NTC Research Center of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen has focused on research and solutions for green technologies and advanced materials in the fields of green energy sources, smart vehicles, and quality of human life and health. Research is centered around such topics as biomechanical models of the human body, chemical processes, and biomaterials, modelling and simulation of technological systems, and infrared technologies. A part of the NTC is the Czech Israeli Research and Development Center for Renewable Energy.
More on ntc.zcu.cz/en.
The NTIS Research Center is a research and development department at the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. It focuses on technical fields such as cybernetics, computer science, and mechanics, which are crucial for the development of information, communication, and mechatronic technologies. The center also focuses on the development of natural sciences, primarily physics, mathematics, and geomatics. Natural sciences research focuses especially on the development of new thin-film materials and plasma sources, the development of new mathematical structures and the collection and processing of spatially defined data.
More on ntis.zcu.cz/en.
RICE is a research center at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. It focuses on smart transport, especially on new concepts of propulsion and technologies for next-generation transport systems; materials research, with a focus on organic electronics and intelligent sensors; technologies for increasing the efficiency of power generation; and the development of advanced technologies for nuclear power. The center also specializes in mathematical modelling and computation, as well as research and development of new diagnostic methods. The main target applications of the research are in the fields of transport, energy, and industry, printed electronics, and smart textiles.
More on rice.zcu.cz/en.
The Regional Technological Institute (RTI) is a research and development center at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. Equipped with modern infrastructure and instrumentation for design, modelling, calculations, simulations, measurements, analyses and prototype production, the center conducts both basic and applied and experimental research in the field of vehicle construction, production machines, machining and forming technologies, as well as modern production methods of so-called “smart production” and “Industry 4.0.”
More on rti.zcu.cz/en.
