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The project’s goal is to reinforce competitiveness in AMLEI’s sub-region through facilitating mechanisms of the entrepreneurial process and innovation generator instruments.
This project embraces another four main activities besides management and broadcast:
1. Institutional Entrepreneurship
This activity aims to promote and foster Creative and Innovative communities as well as to enhance communities’ participation in discussions about Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation in order to contribute to the sustained development of the region.
To fulfil this project a series of monthly meeting/debates will be promoted with various agents of the region not only from local, regional and national institutions (Government representatives), but also from industry, universities and institutions from the National, Scientific and Technological System and the Media. This interaction will allow to withdraw important contributes in order to define strategies for the development of the region.
Simultaneously, an online discussion forum will be
developed, whose objectives are similar to those of the meeting/debates.
However, this tool has a much larger range as it consents an increasingly higher
diversity of inputs and outputs.
2. Entrepreneur Refresh
The objective of this activity is to contribute to a revitalization of the entrepreneurial spirit of entrepreneurs and to broadcast the strategic regional orientation, as well as showing industry the need of innovating in management and organization.
To accomplish these goals three actions were identified: a seminar, an outdoor training and an electronic periodic newsletter.
3. Entrepreneur Office
This activity intends to broadcast the Entrepreneurs Office Network [EON] and entrepreneurship, contributing to a better understanding of the tools available to all that possess an entrepreneur spirit. It is also an objective of this project to promote the concept “entrepreneur” in Portugal and rehearse new models of entrepreneurship attraction.
The project promotes the creation of these EONs with the active support of OPEN Incubator and the networks where it is involved. The existence of a strategic support service to entrepreneurship will ease the entrepreneurial process, as well as designate each idea to the most adequate structure each entrepreneur intends to develop.
The Entrepreneur Office is web-based, which allows
the management of the service-related data, the connection of all networks and
also the fostering of the network. This network is targeted to young people with
entrepreneurial spirit, preferentially with academic training, however it is not
only to Portuguese entrepreneurs but also to those across the European
Union.
4. Technological Mobility
This activity aims at a technological transfer as support to innovation, absorbing knowledge from European networks.
This part of the project aspires to make three different happenings:
- Participation of foreign speakers/experts of international prestige in technological areas relevant to the region in events about technological transfer (promoted by Centimfe);
- Human resources exchange with other RTD or teaching institutions in order to share knowledge and increase skills;
- Mobility and Knowledge Transfer – creation of a contacts network, which would include contacts of experienced people in company phase out and that are directly or indirectly connected to the Mouldmaking and Plastics sector (Technicians and Industry Managers). This would also foster the involvement of young people with degrees in this sector as well as their participation in meetings about international projects.
PERIOD (15 months)
- Beginning: May 2006
- End: July 2007
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