Business environment
Many business environment institutions and companies operate in Kraków to support entrepreneurs in their undertakings.
The constantly expanded and modernised conference facilities
| Agencja Rozwoju Miasta S.A. (City Development Agency) | The agency’s tasks include comprehensive support for Kraków’s development through the provision of services for the entire self-government community. |
| American Chamber of Commerce in Poland (AmCham) | The Kraków branch of the American Chamber of Commerce is its regional office representing Southern Poland; founded in 1995, it provides assistance and promotion to membership companies. |
| British-Polish Chamber of Commerce | Supports the development of economic relations between Poland and the United Kingdom. |
| Business Centre Club Loża Małopolska BCC (BCC Małopolska Lounge) | Entrepreneurs that are members of the Business Centre Club cooperate with Małopolska’s authorities and regional and economic organisations, as well as participate in advisory bodies to the Mayor of the City of Kraków and the Marshall of the Małopolska Region. |
| Centrum Zaawansowanych Technologii Kraków Sp. z o.o. (Kraków Centre for Advanced Technologies) | Company managing the Special Economic Zone of the Kraków Technology Park (Polish abbreviation: SSE-KPT). |
| Fundacja Krakowski Instytut Nieruchomości (Kraków property Institute Foundation) | Undertakes initiatives and supports ventures related to the property market in the fields of scientific and research works, HR education, publishing activities and promotion. |
| Fundacja Partnerstwo dla Środowiska (Partnership for Environment Foundation) | Supports initiatives conducive to social and economic development, based on the natural and cultural heritage with the simultaneous preservation of its values. It helps small and medium-size companies to introduce ecological principles of operation. |
| Fundacja Promocji Gospodarczej Regionu Krakowskiego (Foundation for the Economic Promotion of the Kraków Region) | Supports the development of the Kraków region, and strengthens and promotes its economic potential. Its tasks also include cooperation with foreign partners in the area of the economic promotion of the Kraków region abroad, and assistance in establishing business contacts. |
| Fundusz Mikro Sp. z o.o. (Micro Fund) Local Branch in Kraków | Executes the programme of support for the development of micro-entrepreneurship in Poland primarily by making capital available as loans for small companies. |
| Holenderskie Biuro Biznesu Netherlands Business Support Office (NBSO) | Offers assistance to Dutch companies operating in Southern Poland, and provides Polish entrepreneurs with information about the Dutch economic market. |
| Inicjatywa Mikro (Micro Initiative) | Grants loans for the development of the private sector of small enterprises. |
| Chamber of Commerce and Industry | This economic self-government organisation represents the economic interests of its members in the area of their economic activities. One of the main tasks of the chamber is to provide counselling for Polish and foreign companies. It offers the following services: mutual acquisition of investors, exchange of economic and trade information, and matching of partners for economic cooperation. |
| Euro Info Centre PL413 | The Euro Info Centre project is one of the main tools of the European Commission used to execute the policy of supporting the development of small and medium-size enterprises. The Euro Info Centre in Kraków (PL413) is one of 12 such centres in Poland; it operates at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Kraków. |
| Krakowska Izba Turystyki (Cracow Chamber of Tourism) | The Chamber’s activities focus mainly on the cooperation with the government, self-government and local authorities in the area of the creation of conditions for the development of tourism in Kraków and the Małopolska Region, and the creation of conditions for the development and improvement of the standard of tourist services. It gathers 110 economic entities servicing the tourist traffic in Małopolska. |
| Krakowska Kongregacja Kupiecka (Kraków Congregation of Merchants) | Represents the interests of its members in front of authorities and the state, self-government and social institutions. It undertakes initiatives conducive to the development of private economic activity and improvement of its conditions. It searches for foreign partners in order to start cooperation in the field of organisation and running of trade, services and eating facilities, identification of goods exchange possibilities and matching of business partners. |
| Krakowskie Towarzystwo Przemysłowe (Kraków Industry Association) | Develops the economic initiatives of the citizens, protects the interest of private entrepreneurs, fight the bureaucratic barriers hindering the development of market economy, and promote the ethos of reliable and dynamic entrepreneur aware of their rights and obligations. |
| Małopolska Agencja Rozwoju Regionalnego S.A. (Małopolska Regional Development Agency) | Initiates, promotes and encourages measures related to running the regional policy. The scope of cooperation with foreign partners includes the possibility of full servicing of economic missions (organisation of bilateral meetings with Polish partners, logistics, tourist programme), search for areas, properties and enterprises for sale or lease. |
| Małopolska Izba Budowlanych (Małopolska Chamber of Construction Workers) | It represents its members in front of self-government and administrative entities, and affects the law created by them. |
| Małopolska Izba Rolnicza (Małopolska Chamber of Agriculture) | Conducts measures, for example, for the creation of the agricultural market and the improvement of sales conditions for crops and agricultural products, the promotion of agricultural products on the domestic and foreign market, and the development of cooperation with foreign organisations of agricultural producers. |
| Małopolska Izba Rzemiosła i Przedsiębiorczości (Małopolska Chamber of Craft and Entrepreneurship) | This social and occupational organisation of craft self-government gathers guilds, craft cooperatives, private persons and natural persons on a voluntary basis. |
| Małopolska Organizacja Turystyczna (Małopolska Tourist Organisation) | Executes tasks related to the development of tourism in Małopolska. The main goal of the organisation’s activities is to create and promote the image of Kraków and the region at the domestic and foreign tourist markets. |
| Małopolski Instytut Samorządu Terytorialnego i Administracji - Fundacja Rozwoju Demokracji Lokalnej (Małopolska Institute of Territorial Self-government and Administration – Local Democracy Development Foundation) | Conducts educational, consulting and advisory activities for self-government administration and non-governmental organisations, as well as representatives of small and medium-size enterprises. |
| NordicHouse | The Centre of Business and Culture was established to develop inter-regional cooperation between Nordic countries and Southern Poland through the promotion of business contacts, tourism and culture. |