Ventspils High Technology Park
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Ventspils High Technology Park (VHTP) was founded in 2005. The Organisation is an active player in promoting high technology industry development in Ventspils
city which is one of the major economic centres in the Republic of Latvia
. VHTP specialises in information and communication technologies, electronics, mechanical engineering and space technologies.
VHTP provides infrastructure and services to high technology companies . The main tenants are Siemens
, Ventspils elektronikas fabrika, Inspecta and Ventspils University College research institutes.
Ventspils University College Research Engineering Centre’s two departments are situated in VHTP– Computer Design Department and Applied Electronics Department.
The location of the Ventspils High Technology Park permits the enterprises to get, by the status of the free economic zone
, substantial tax reductions.
VHTP also operates the Ventspils Business Incubator.
Business incubator was founded in 2006. Business incubator is situated in the 3rd block of Ventspils University College .
The main task of the business incubator is to create new companies which would become financially and economically independent after leaving incubator.
Ventspils
Ventspils is a city in northwestern Latvia in the Courland historical region of Latvia, the sixth largest city in the country. As of 2006, Ventspils had a population of 43,806. Ventspils is situated on the Venta River and the Baltic Sea, and has an ice-free port...
city which is one of the major economic centres in the Republic of Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
. VHTP specialises in information and communication technologies, electronics, mechanical engineering and space technologies.
VHTP provides infrastructure and services to high technology companies . The main tenants are Siemens
Siemens
Siemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...
, Ventspils elektronikas fabrika, Inspecta and Ventspils University College research institutes.
Ventspils University College Research Engineering Centre’s two departments are situated in VHTP– Computer Design Department and Applied Electronics Department.
The location of the Ventspils High Technology Park permits the enterprises to get, by the status of the free economic zone
Free economic zone
Many countries have, or have had at some time, designated areas where companies are taxed very lightly or not at all to encourage development or for some other reason...
, substantial tax reductions.
VHTP also operates the Ventspils Business Incubator.
Business incubator was founded in 2006. Business incubator is situated in the 3rd block of Ventspils University College .
The main task of the business incubator is to create new companies which would become financially and economically independent after leaving incubator.