Lifescience Park investment is localized AT Bobrzynskiego 14 Street in Krakow in the neer environment of III Campus UJ in the special Krakow’s Economic Zone. There are several existing and planned institutions localized in this area:

• Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Biotechnology Jagiellonian University (UJ),
• Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences UJ,
• Faculty of Chemistry,
• Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Informatics UJ,
• Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics,
• Jagiellonian University Hospital,
• JU Collegium Medicum,
• Malopolska Center of Biotechnology (MCB),
• National Center of Synchrotron Radiation,
• National Center of Hadronic Radiotherapy, coordinated by INP PAS Krakow.

Part of the Technology Park I will consist of large research area devoted for Jagiellonian Center of Experimental Therapeutics (JCET). JCET will be a leading research institution in studying pharmacology of vascular system, and research platform for pharmaceutical industry testing their drug candidates in phase I of clinical trials.

More info regarding research, educational and academic institutions is in a BIOREGION tab of this website.

Special Economic Zone

An undisputable advantage of Krakow’s Lifscience Park is its localization in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) of the city. The direct advantage of this localization is a possibility for potential investors negotiating attractive contract conditions for their business, and on the other hand making the Park competitive and attractive for new investments. Rental of the laboratory area in the Park enables to obtain special support coming from public resources.
Companies operating within the special economic zone may obtain the public support as an exemption from the corporate income tax. Thus, the company will pay no corporate income tax till the total amount of the public support, calculated on the basis of incurred investment expenditures or expenditures associated with creating a new posts, is cleared. The Krakow’s SEZ, where the Park is located in its limits, is currently consisted of 52884 ha. The Zone is part of Malopolska and Podkarpackie region, where public support coming from new and on-going investments in the SEZ is the highest in Poland. Krakow’s SEZ is split up into 19 subzones located within 17 counties. Statistics show that within the Zone, to-date 72 permits for private companies have been issued, 5828 new work places have been created, whereas amount of investments within SEZ ranged 1,3 bln PLN. The SEZ is operating based on the Special Economic Zones Act and Ordinance of the Council of Ministers, and will be valid until December 31, 2020.

Krakow Road Infrastructure and Map Location

Beginning in 2009 there was a gradual modification and expansion of the road infrastructure directly neighboring the Park. The city road plans predict construction of modern double lane road (Trasa Skotnicka), with a predicted construction of Fast Tram connecting downtown with the III Campus UJ.
Independently from city’s road investments, the Park is feasibly localized in the close vicinity of downtown and A4 by-pass, allowing fast excel to such key places as: Zgorzelec (western Poland boarder with Germany), Wroclaw, Katowice, Rzeszow and Medyka (western border of Poland with Ukraine). The A4 by-pass is also an easy access to state road number 7 going to Chyzne (Southern border of Poland with Slovakia). Within 14 km from the Park (including 10 km of by-pass) there is a feasible and fast access to John Paul II International Airport in Krakow-Balice. The airport is capable of servicing large number of national and international flights (35000 flights in the first two quartile of 2009). Krakow’s International Airport is constantly expanding number of servicing flights both to Europe and the US becoming a leading airport in the region with a total number of 3 000 000 passengers serviced annually.