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BGK role in supporting innovations

Jerzy Jacek Szugajew

Vice President of the Board

Berlin, 19 June 2015 r.

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Key information on BGK

Established in 1924

100% state-owned

First-choice bank for the State in delivery of

social/economic development programmes

Organizes funds and the system for

supporting export

Organises finance under Polish Investments programme

Leading bank in finance and services for local

self-government units, municipal companies

and healthcare institutions

The bank supports absorption of EU

funding

Leading institution in the process of

consolidating public finances The bank manages programmes and

government funds with regard to development

and modernisation of infrastructure

Organizes efficient model for operating with

regard to guarantees for businesses

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Operational Programme Innovative Economy 2007-2013 Technological Credit

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Support for technological investments carried out by innovative enterprises

Operating principle – combination of credit financing (private resources) and grants (public resources)

Grants paid after the implementation of new technology

ERDF Operational Programme

BGK Implementing

Body

SME Project

Bank

Credit Grant

Results up to date (the programme launched in July 2009):

695 projects supported

Total amount of grants – 432 mln euro

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The VIGO System

new infrared cameras,

optoelectronic and detection modules on one of the most advanced production lines of this type in the world.

infrared detector has been mounted in the Curiosity Mars Rover and used to examine the composition of Martian rocks.

VIGO System PLC

Official Supplier of NASA

New products – optoelectronic devices

Investment amount: 1,35 mln euro

Grant amount: 0,5 mln euro.

Technological Credit Success Stories (1)

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Technological Credit Success Stories (2)

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Bowil Biotech is the first biotechnological company which produces biocellulose in Europe, used for the production of intelligent cosmetics, medical devices and pharmaceutical wares

Implementation of the innovative know-how from Poland’s Lodz University of Technology

BOWIL Biotech Ltd.

Implementation of the new technology of biocellulose (bacterial cellulose)

Investment amount:

3,3 mln euro

Grant amount: approx. 1 milion euro.

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Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego

Al. Jerozolimskie 7 00-955 Warsaw, Poland

BGK Line: +48 22 596 58 81, 801 66 76 55 e-mail: bgk@bgk.com.pl

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