On the road to world´s first self-sustainable business incubator

STPs and AOIs are constantly struggling to present te stakeholders the strategy of financial sustainability because it shows clearly the effect of the STP or AOI in the business supporting ecosystem and gives a statement to the stakeholders that they are not interfering the investments of the private sector and the normal market conditions. Today STPs and AOIs have worked out a good set of KPIs that are constantly monitored and presented to prove the effectiveness of their activity. Financial independence and break even point is still something that is hard to achieve. In 2015 Tehnopol, together of stakeholders decided to build up the self‐sustainable incubation program for up to 50 tech‐companies that lasts for one year. Today, in early 2017, Startup Incubator is about to accomplish the financial self‐sustainability and is taking steps to introduce new revenue models in 2018 proving that incubation programs can be sustainable after all.