BIC Incubatori FVG
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About us

Mission

Turning an idea into a successful product is the dream of many. Assessing its value, its market, and the proponent’s ability to pursue it and manage the resulting company, and supporting — with real expertise and a service mindset — the many challenges that precede a company’s growth: this is BIC Incubatori FVG’s mission.

Why BIC

BIC is the certified incubator where business ideas are developed: from the initial proof of concept to assessing entrepreneurial capacity, through to management and structural growth. Active since 1989 and an EBN — European Business Innovation Centres Network — certified member from the start, BIC is listed in the special section of the Business Register as a certified incubator for innovative startups (Italian Law 221/2012), and has supported over 260 companies through their growth journey.

It’s an integrated system of services, an environment conducive to entrepreneurship for activating expertise, support, ideas and contributions — a tool for those who believe in technologically advanced companies and the innovations of the years ahead.

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Faster time to launch and full operational capacity

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Support on crucial operational matters: raising private and public capital, strategic choices, partner relations

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Easier market contacts and a stronger image toward clients and external investors

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Access to third-party services on favourable terms, as a certified incubator under Law 221/12

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Minimised fixed costs and minimum investment threshold

All of this is made possible by the presence, within the incubator, of financial partners dedicated to early-stage investment, by close collaboration with the local scientific community — the University of Trieste, SISSA, Area Science Park, the Synchrotron, OGS — and by the international EBN network, which brings together over 150 certified incubators across Europe. BIC is open to aspiring entrepreneurs with an idea to validate, as well as established entrepreneurs looking to develop new products or corporate spin-offs.

Our history

From 1989 to today, nearly forty years of companies supported through their growth journey — from Italy's first business incubator to a network that has supported over 300 companies.

  1. 1986BIC Trieste S.p.A. is founded
  2. 1989The Trieste Incubator opens — the first in Italy
  3. 1991EBN certification
  4. 1993Recognised as a «Business Innovation Centre» by the Commission of the European Communities
  5. 2003Owned by Sviluppo Italia S.p.A., now Invitalia S.p.A.
  6. 2009Owned by Friulia S.p.A.
  7. 2015Recognised as a «certified incubator for innovative startups» (Italian Law 221/2012)
  8. 2021Since 1 April, owned by Biovalley Investments Partner S.p.A.
  9. 2026Since 3 July, owned by Innova S.p.A. — once a startup incubated in Trieste, now running the incubator itself
Clipping from Corriere della Sera, 28 February 1989, about the Trieste BIC's inauguration, headlined «Aziende in provetta, il tentativo Iri»
Corriere della Sera, 28 February 1989 — the day after the Trieste BIC's inauguration, Italy's first business incubator, with Minister Carlo Fracanzani in attendance.
300+Companies supported since 1989
92%Space occupancy
5 yearsAverage stay in the incubator

Aggregate annual revenue of resident companies

Aggregate annual revenue of resident companies, in millions of euros
YearRevenue
2011€22M
2012€28M
2013€34M
2014€38M
2015€40M
2016€54M
2017€59M
2018€62M
2019€64M
2020€65M
2021€74M
2022€84M
2023€86M

Values rounded to the nearest million, reconstructed from BIC's own materials.

Projects

Certifications, European and regional projects that show what we do, not just what we are.

Ongoing projects

  • Interreg Italia-Slovenia: Kras-Carso II - Hackaton Geoparco Kras-Carso

    Hackathon Geoparco Kras-Carso: Sviluppa idee per il futuro del geoparco transfrontaliero Kras–Carso

  • NuovaImpresa FVG

    NuovaImpresa FVG è un’Operazione di Importanza Strategica (OIS) del Programma Regionale del Fondo Sociale Europeo Plus 21-27 della Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia, che intende incoraggiare e sostenere l’imprenditorialità in Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Completed projects and results