Creation of poles started in 2004 based on international experiences, on French first of all. Hungary’s National Development Policy Concept and National Territory Development Concept, accepted in December 2005, selected eight towns: Budapest, Debrecen, Győr, Miskolc, Pécs, Szeged, Székesfehérvár and Veszprém to create development poles.

A development (competitiveness, growth) pole, within a well-defined geographical territory, incorporates all those companies, public and private, education and research centres that cluster around a common innovative project and commit themselves to entering into a partnership for higher effectiveness.

The partnership forms between a technical-academic field and its related market. This partnership can generate the critical mass of the pole necessary for competitiveness and international appearance.

The selected towns were requested to determine the knowledge-based economy development priorities for their own significant, competitive industries. The Municipality of Szeged County established the Szeged Development Pole Kht. in December 2005, which turned into a non-profit Ltd. in 2007, to perform the operative tasks of the pole programme, to prepare planning and manage the programmes.

Under the coordination of the local municipality, the Szeged Pole Development Non-profit Ltd. has been working out the “SZEGED BIOPOLISZ Development Pole Programme” in close collaboration with the University of Szeged and the research institutes.

Our vision is to become the most effective background institution in Szeged’s renewal.

Our mission is to develop and stabilize a dynamic, internationally successful economic structure in the Szeged region.

Our Fields of Activity:

• to coordinate the development of conceptions defining the common developments trends for establishing knowledge-based economy.
• to manage innovative processes, as part of integrated planning, from idea generating through social dialogues to preparation of professional events ensuring international attention.
• to monitor continuously the implementation of high returns (income generating and quality of life improving), knowledge-based projects.

Our Tasks:

• 2nd National Development Plan’s (NFT II.) programming tasks: keep a record of and manage cooperation partners’ data and shared documents;
• to head, organise and keep a record of cooperations;
• to prepare projects: territorial preparation and coordination of technical preparations of high returns (income generating and quality of life improving), knowledge-based town projects (electric public transport);
• to promote investments: to develop an investment information database, to make investment offers to investors, to coordinate investors visits;
• to manage investments;
• to examine investment options, to do market research, to analyse financial-economic offers, to prepare tender bids;
• project managements tasks;
• planning tasks;
• to develop collaboration networks: to search for partners, to build partnerships, consultations, social debates, forums, to organise presentations;
• marketing and PR tasks.

www.szegedpolus.hu