Business incubator PISMO

Overview

PISMO is the first non-profit digital innovation hub located in Sisak Moslavina county with the aim of stronger and successful shift from traditional industries to modern ones. It provides services to companies eager to adopt digital technologies in dominantly traditional industry region. The aim is to create a strong partnership based on trust with a main goal of creating new jobs and strengthen the economy of SMC and Croatia. The core business of PISMO as a DIH is a smart skills build-up – enhancement of existing and creation of new labour force for smart specialization. PISMO will also be partly focused on providing services for metal processing sector. It is expected that Croatian (and SMC) industry of manufacturing of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment, will improve its position and competitiveness on the international market.

PISMO is intended to be a center of a gaming industry in Croatia, connecting gaming development companies with start-ups and individuals. As PISMO is fully equipped for gaming development, it will enable for young people to develop their ideas, to create new games and even to promote it on a global market. It will also enable existing SMEs to scale up their business and to shift towards digital era.

PISMO DIH is consisted of two buildings (located in town Novska) with 20 offices, big coworking and multimedia area, education areas, music and video studios, motion capture studio and all necessary equipment for gaming development industry. Financial support system is designed as well, and it will offer potential start-ups a great opportunity to start theid businesses and to develop ney ideas.

The above mentioned is achieved mainly through educations, mentoring and networking.

Educations are held regularly and they aim to help individuals and existing companies to acquire skillset necessary to withstand challenges of digital era. Educations include digital skills for game development and business skills necessary to survive contemporary market challenges. They are completely free of charge.

Mentoring process is carried out by our experts and by people from partner organisations and it provides a valuable source of practical knowledge and experience. Mentors follow client’s first steps towards digitalisation or developing their ideas and lead them throughout entire process.

Networking is enabled through meetings and workshops that are being held with a purpose to connect education participants and existing SMEs with gaming industry and their representatives. In that context expert conferences on digitalization, gaming, marketing and sales opportunities are held.

There are also some other services that supplement our main services to clients: Incubator services which include rent of offices, coworking area and equipment specialized for gaming and other digitally based ideas. Equipment include music and video studio, VR, motion capture studio, photogrammetry studio, 3D printer etc.

Access to local, regional, national and EU funding – PISMO DIH experts offer consulting services to clients by offering them solutions for financing of their ideas. PISMO DIH team has a long-time experience in attracting finances for entrepreneurs. Digital technologies.