Innovation infrastructure
The Science and Technology Park (STP) at TBU in Zlín is aimed to support innovative companies, science, research and development activities through its services, which are provided here in wide range.
STP TBU in Zlín offers above-standard equipped offices and laboratories, technical and social facilities, premises for seminars and workshops with a total area of 5,821 m2, certified clean premises of class “C” with a professional guarantee of the services of the Internal Auditor according to ČSN EN ISO 13485 ed 2:2016 and the possibility of cooperation with scientific teams, modern facilitiy and a lucrative location in the center of Zlín.
STP TBU in Zlín offers the services of a Footwear Testing Laboratory with international accreditation according to ČSN EN ISO /IEC 17025:2018 and services of the Locomotor Diagnostics Laboratory.
Inter-sectoral cooperation of students as well as academic staff is supported at both national and international levels. An example is cooperation within the framework of projects of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (Epsilon, Theta, National Competence Centre Programme), the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, OPTAK Operational Programmes, OPJAK Operational Programmes, EU Structural Funds – OP R&D and the TBU Junior Grants Competition in Zlín (JUNG). Research-oriented academic staff and doctoral students participated in the implementation of projects in the industrial sphere and vice versa – they used the response as an impulse for further research. Foreign activities are then included mainly in cooperation in the preparation and implementation of international projects supported by the European Commission (Horizon – TWIN, Horizon – SOLiD, Horizon -Stories, Horizon SurfToGreen, ; EU-Intereg Danube) and EU funds – ERASMUS-EDU.
The Science and Technology Park was built in 2008, being supported by “Scientific and Technology Park and Technology Transfer Centre at the TBU of Zlín” project. The project was financed by the European Fund for Regional Development, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic and the Tomas Bata University in Zlín within the Operational Program Industry and Entrepreneurship, the PROSPERITA program.