Kovačnica Kranj – business incubator and coworking space in Kranj, Slovenia
About this good practice
Resources needed
- At least 1 staff member fully employed on this project
- Approx. 20.000€ per year for workshops and educational activities
- Approx. 20.000€ per year for mentoring activities
- Approx. 20.000€ per year for equipment, office cost and renovation
- Approx. 15.000 per year for rent
Evidence of success
Biggest success factor is stable growth over past 5 years. Coworking started on premises just 75m2 and now occupy 450m2 of space. Also, number of coworkers are growing and currently all 35 available spaces are sold out. Majority of our workshops and other educational activities are also fully booked in advanced since we have limited capacity on it (approx. 20 participants per activity). We are also serving up to 15 entrepreneurs per day with consulting, mentoring and registration activities.
Potential for learning or transfer
We think this good practice can be nice example on how to establish, develop and run coworking center also in smaller town outside bigger metropolitan areas. Trend in working related to remote work and digital nomads will definitely go in the direction of smaller coworking spaces also in more rural areas. In 2015 we started from scratch in old school building so we went through all phases of building and development of a coworking space and most important of building a business community around it.
As mentioned above, idea first came from group of young people of Kranj, so it is also nice example what can be done if young people are listened and have support from local municipality and other relevant stakeholders.