This section will present financial programs, initiatives aiding entrepreneurships and the important role of entrepreneurship culture in different Mediterranean regions

1. Forum
organized
by:

2. A comprehensive approach to promote innovative
entrepreneurship in euromediterranean regions
Fabio Maria Montagnino
Managing Director
Consorzio ARCA
NET KITE
Cross-border NETwork to foster
Knowledge-intensive business
incubation and Technology
transfer

3. The Mediterranean
Entrepreneurial Challenge
Public investment in higher education, training,
research, don’t generate - by itself - jobs, social
inclusion, employment, territorial development.
Do we need further public investments or more incentives for
industries to localize in our regions? Should the budgets be
remodulated among sectors?
We believe we have to nurture ecosystems that helps creativity
to boost and move into entrepreneurship, connecting local
resources and talents to global networks and markets.

4. Young companies create jobs for young
people in USA, why not in MED?

5. Key “tiles” of the integrated
NETKITE approach
1. Open Innovation philosophy
2. Living Labs approach, involvement of
communities through e-participation tools
3. Empowerment of “soft” interfaces
4. Focus on generation of spin-off companies as
“living links” of innovation pathways.

6. The quadruple helix
Government, academia, industry and citizens can collaborate together
to drive structural changes and sustainable development, going far
beyond the scope of any one organization could achieve on it’s own.
That’s a way to re-localize value in our regions and to give an
opportunity to our young entrepreneurs!
Government
Academia
Industry
Ci9zens

7. From 4P to Open Innovation 2.0:
an emerging organic paradigm
Firm
Start-­‐up
University
RTD
public
lab
VC
investor
Nascent
Start-­‐up
User
Co-­‐innovator
Crea<ve
Commons
Government
Ecosystem
support
Adapted
from
M.
Curley,
VP
Intel
Corp.
Community

8. NET KITE partners

9. NET KITE network and sectors

10. OI ecosystem building tools
q Recruitment of innovators through meetings door2door,
social networks & media
q Focus groups with sectorial experts
q E-participation community events
q Idea contest
q OI platform
q Training+Mentoring+Coaching
q Transnational mobility scheme
q Qualification & upgrade of TT labs
q Prototyping activities involving SMEs
q Final BP competition

12. A new methodology to stress participation
From ETMs (electronic town meetings) to EMC2
(entrepreneurship meetings for community challenges)
The aim of these e-participation events is to explore the following
themes:
q entrepreneurial growth rate in innovative sectors
q generation of jobs through innovative entrepreneurship
q interactions between public and private organizations in the
technology transfer process
q how associations and local networks may help
q how to improve the entrepreneurial culture in young people
q how innovative entrepreneurship can help to solve problems of the
local communities.

13. Promotion of the idea contest

14. Mentoring in idea generation

15. Idea feasibility check

16. Focus Group

17. Training of MPCs partners on electronic meeting
management tool

18. First EMC2 in Tunisia

19. OI platform under development
Public launch due on 01/01/15

20. OI platform under development
Public launch due on 01/01/15

21. Open issues
q How to specialize the approach to the
Mediterranean culture? Where do we need to
“think different”?
q How can we stably link of “usual businesses”
with creative & innovative young people?
q Can we manage cross-regional idea contests to
generate med-native start-ups?
q Can we finally generate a “Mediterranean
entrepreneurship area” as in Baltic sea region?

22. Thank you for your attention!
for further information and contacts
www.netkite.eu
www.facebook.com/netkite
www.consorzioarca.it
fmontagnino@consorzioarca.it