Technological-Innovation Center Rijeka is a science-technologic incubator. TIC helps entrepreneurs to set up enterprise for development of products or services that are based on a higher or high technology and thus enable their growth and development. The idea emerged at the University of Rijeka in 1994, following the example of technology centers in Europe. Enterpreneurs who have a registered firm or those without one but with products or services that are based on innovation,
high or higher technology can join TIC and thus shorten and ease the path of the idea, innovation, knowledge, product or service to market commercialization.

To this end, Technology Innovation Center Rijeka founded FIPRO Foundation. The Foundation’s goal is financing  entrepreneurs with products/services of high and higher technology which heve not been given due attention so far, although their business is riskier than other forms of entrepreneurship.

TIC has been operating since 1998. Since then, 35 enterprises with more than 400 highly educated professionals have passed through TIC, 15 prototypes have been made, 20 seminars have been held, TIC has participated in two EU projects, and several innovative projects have been realized.

Source: http://www.wbc-inco.net/object/document/84515.html