The document summarizes information from a European BIC Network quality magazine. It discusses a visit by the Managing Director of University of East London's Knowledge Dock BIC to the BIC do Porto in Portugal. It also highlights the launch of the European BIC Network's YouTube channel to feature videos about innovation and entrepreneurship. Finally, it discusses how the BIC community supports SME internationalization, including by organizing events, assessing internationalization plans, and signposting members to resources like the European Enterprise Network.
This presentation explains the different actions of the ICT priority, as part of Horizont 2020 programme. These actions that will be launched in 2014-2015 in support of entrepreunership in ICT; support for definition & implementation of Inducement Prizes and support for precommercial procurement.
On the occasion of the Forum Trade and Invest in France held on 23rd September 2015 by the French Embassy and the Franco-Thai Chamber of Commerce at Alliance Française in Bangkok, Stephane Lambert (CEO of Wishtrend Thailand and Foreign trade advisor to French Governement and Axel Baratte, Digital Economy Expert at Business France) have been invited to introduced the french Tech Thailande
The document provides statistics on Business Innovation Centers (BICs) in Portugal and compares them to BICs across the European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN) in 2010. Some key findings:
- There were 10 BICs in Portugal participating in the survey out of 148 total BICs in the EBN network.
- On average, Portuguese BICs had 32 staff members compared to an average of 1865 staff across the EBN network.
- Portuguese BICs assisted 61 companies in fundraising and helped raise over €4.4 million in estimated capital, while the overall EBN network assisted 2,968 companies and helped raise over €316 million.
- The main
This document discusses snapshots in distributed systems. It begins by defining a snapshot as recording the simultaneous local states of all processes and communication channels. Snapshots can be used for deadlock detection, monitoring systems, and checkpointing distributed databases. Determining a global state is difficult due to the distributed nature of systems with no shared memory or clocks. Consistent cuts that do not cross message orderings can accurately capture a global state. The document then discusses several snapshot algorithms, including Chandy-Lamport for FIFO systems using markers, and Lai-Yang for non-FIFO systems using message coloring.
The document summarizes key facts and figures from a 2010 survey of 148 Business Innovation Centers (BICs) across Europe. The survey was conducted as part of the European BIC Network's quality system to ensure BICs comply with quality standards. It provides data on BIC ownership, services offered, sectors supported, funding sources, staffing, and key performance indicators. The survey found that 86.5% of eligible BICs participated and provides a summary of their characteristics and operations.
Tc dojo presentation writing mobile documentationNeil Perlin
This document discusses writing content for mobile experiences. It suggests both cutting existing content to shorten it for mobile while also rewriting what remains to improve it for mobile contexts. Specifically, it recommends cutting unnecessary, outdated, or technically incompatible content, like large images or Flash files that don't work on mobile. However, any cut content should still be accessible if users need it. The rewritten content should focus on the user's needs and account for the cuts. Both approaches are needed to create effective yet shorter mobile-friendly content.
This presentation explains the different actions of the ICT priority, as part of Horizont 2020 programme. These actions that will be launched in 2014-2015 in support of entrepreunership in ICT; support for definition & implementation of Inducement Prizes and support for precommercial procurement.
On the occasion of the Forum Trade and Invest in France held on 23rd September 2015 by the French Embassy and the Franco-Thai Chamber of Commerce at Alliance Française in Bangkok, Stephane Lambert (CEO of Wishtrend Thailand and Foreign trade advisor to French Governement and Axel Baratte, Digital Economy Expert at Business France) have been invited to introduced the french Tech Thailande
The document provides statistics on Business Innovation Centers (BICs) in Portugal and compares them to BICs across the European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN) in 2010. Some key findings:
- There were 10 BICs in Portugal participating in the survey out of 148 total BICs in the EBN network.
- On average, Portuguese BICs had 32 staff members compared to an average of 1865 staff across the EBN network.
- Portuguese BICs assisted 61 companies in fundraising and helped raise over €4.4 million in estimated capital, while the overall EBN network assisted 2,968 companies and helped raise over €316 million.
- The main
This document discusses snapshots in distributed systems. It begins by defining a snapshot as recording the simultaneous local states of all processes and communication channels. Snapshots can be used for deadlock detection, monitoring systems, and checkpointing distributed databases. Determining a global state is difficult due to the distributed nature of systems with no shared memory or clocks. Consistent cuts that do not cross message orderings can accurately capture a global state. The document then discusses several snapshot algorithms, including Chandy-Lamport for FIFO systems using markers, and Lai-Yang for non-FIFO systems using message coloring.
The document summarizes key facts and figures from a 2010 survey of 148 Business Innovation Centers (BICs) across Europe. The survey was conducted as part of the European BIC Network's quality system to ensure BICs comply with quality standards. It provides data on BIC ownership, services offered, sectors supported, funding sources, staffing, and key performance indicators. The survey found that 86.5% of eligible BICs participated and provides a summary of their characteristics and operations.
Tc dojo presentation writing mobile documentationNeil Perlin
This document discusses writing content for mobile experiences. It suggests both cutting existing content to shorten it for mobile while also rewriting what remains to improve it for mobile contexts. Specifically, it recommends cutting unnecessary, outdated, or technically incompatible content, like large images or Flash files that don't work on mobile. However, any cut content should still be accessible if users need it. The rewritten content should focus on the user's needs and account for the cuts. Both approaches are needed to create effective yet shorter mobile-friendly content.
This document provides statistics on Business Innovation Centers (BICs) in Germany and compares them to BICs across the European BIC Network in 2010. It finds that in 2010 there were 6 BICs in Germany that participated in the survey, representing 66.66% of German BICs. On average, German BICs had 46 tenants, employed 231 people, and had 41 contacts for enterprise creation, compared to averages of 31 tenants, 181 employees, and 318 contacts across the European BIC Network. The document provides additional details on the funding, services, training events and outcomes of the German BICs compared to the overall European network in 2010.
This document summarizes a newsletter from the European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN). The newsletter discusses EBN visiting another business incubator called CE
This document provides an introduction and overview of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for use in RoboHelp. It defines key CSS concepts like styles, style sheets, and the cascading priority of styles. It also covers style types, best practices for CSS development, and troubleshooting issues with pre-RoboHelp 8 lists. The document is presented by Neil Perlin of Hyper/Word Services, an internationally recognized content consultant.
Spectrum 2015 going online with style - an intro to cssNeil Perlin
This document introduces CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and provides an overview of some basic CSS concepts:
- CSS allows authors to define styles that can be applied consistently throughout a project for formatting elements like headings, paragraphs, etc. This improves efficiency and consistency compared to local formatting.
- A style sheet is a separate file containing all styles for a project. It cascades in that changes can inherit to child styles.
- The document discusses CSS basics like style rules, the box model, relative sizing units, and different CSS levels.
- It recommends best practices like defining styles upfront in a CSS before authoring and avoiding inline styles.
This document provides statistics on Business Innovation Centers (BICs) in France and compares them to BICs across the European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN) in 2010. Some key findings:
- There were 36 BICs in France participating in the survey out of a total of 148 potential participants across the EBN network.
- French BICs had 311 total staff compared to 1,865 across the network. Their areas of expertise focused more on promotion of SMEs/regions and advanced ICT compared to the network's focus on R&D/university spin-offs and high-tech SME support.
- Most French BIC income came from public sources through national
Topic based and structured authoring - slidesNeil Perlin
The document discusses topic-based and structured authoring approaches. It begins with introductions from the presenter and an overview of the contents. Section 1 defines topic-based authoring as authoring content in topics rather than documents, with each topic answering a single question. Structured authoring is defined as authoring with consistent sectional and stylistic rules. Section 2 discusses rationales for using these approaches, such as flexible reuse of content and consistency. Section 3 covers strategy, such as defining goals, and tactics like project management and standards.
The document provides statistics on Business Innovation Centers (BICs) in Belgium and compares them to BICs across the European Business and Innovation Centre Network. Some key findings are:
- There were 8 BICs in Belgium that participated in the survey, out of a total of 148 potential participants across the network.
- Belgian BICs had a total of 93 staff members and supported over 850 jobs at tenant companies.
- Belgian BICs hosted 236 tenant companies on average and helped raise over €26 million in capital for supported businesses.
- The statistics benchmark Belgian BIC activities and performance against the broader European BIC network.
This document introduces responsive design for online help outputs. It defines responsive design as creating a single output that automatically adapts to different display devices. It discusses how responsive design works using relative size units, media queries, and fluid grids. It also provides examples of how to implement responsive design in Flare and RoboHelp without coding by using their built-in responsive features and outlines best practices for content design.
This document discusses responsive design for online help outputs from tools like Flare and RoboHelp. It covers converting legacy projects, which can involve addressing local formatting, images that are too large or not resizable, tables, and other issues. New issues with responsive design include supporting different image resolutions, handling videos and captions at different screen widths, and optimizing CSS. The document provides examples and suggestions for addressing many of these common challenges.
Spectrum 16 pmc 16 - mobile and tech commNeil Perlin
Mobile technology is spreading beyond just phones and tablets and will significantly impact technical communication. To prepare, technical communicators should define the value they provide, consider new business models, focus on search-based navigation over indexes, write more concisely for mobile, and learn new skills like CSS. In the future, they may need to create true mobile apps, explore new interfaces like voice control, and personalize content based on user analytics. Mobile will change how technical communication is delivered and require adaptation.
Lavacon 2014 responsive design in your hatNeil Perlin
New to responsive design concepts in general? How to do responsive design in MadCap Flare and Adobe RoboHelp? Take a look at my presentation from Lavacon 2014.
This issue of the European BIC Network's quality eMag discusses innovation and quality at Trentino Sviluppo, an Italian business and innovation center (BIC). It provides details on Trentino Sviluppo's history, services, facilities, and programs to support technology transfer and startup companies. It also introduces the EBN's new Soft Landing initiative to help BIC client companies establish international sales presences. Finally, it reminds readers about the upcoming EC-BIC questionnaire and welcomes new full members to the EBN.
"Startup Europe and Funding Opportunities in Horizon 2020" by Bogdan Ceobanu,...Eurapp
Rebooting the EU App Economy / Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin, Germany / 13th November 2013
Bogdan Ceobanu, DG CONNECT, European Commission
"Startup Europe and Funding Opportunities in Horizon 2020"
This document provides information about the EBN Tech Camp taking place December 4-6, 2013 in Rovereto, Trentino, Italy. The Tech Camp will consist of a Tools Exchange Forum where tool developers can pitch their products, a workshop on coaching/mentoring entrepreneurs, end-user testing through Living Labs, and acceleration programs. There will also be peer reviews of three Business and Innovation Centers (BICs). The event is an opportunity for business support professionals, tool designers, and startups/SMEs to network, learn about new tools, and exchange best practices for supporting entrepreneurs and innovation.
The Europe 2020 strategy is rightly focused on competitiveness as the essential condition for economic growth and job-creation in the global 21st century economy.
THE ITALIAN AGENDA: POLICIES AND STRATEGIES FOR STARTUPSValya Chudovskaya
The document outlines Italy's agenda and policies for supporting startups. It discusses the definition of an innovative startup, key support measures including reducing red tape, flexible labor laws, funding incentives, and the Startup Visa. Results so far include over 2,700 high-tech startups established and funds allocated for startup loans. The strengths of Italy include its manufacturing culture and access to strategic markets, while weaknesses include a lack of venture capital and connections between startups and traditional companies. Next steps proposed are increasing entrepreneurship education, developing venture capital, facilitating networking, and promoting collaboration.
Startupbootcamp FinTech is the leading accelerator focused on financial innovation, providing funding, mentorship, office space in the heart of London and access to a global network of investors and VCs, for up to 10 selected FinTech startups.
Startup Cities: Porto, Portugal - Me Convention 2018Chinwag
Maria Miguel, Director of StartUP Portugal presented Porto as part of the Startup Cities programme at the Me Convention 2018 in Stockholm featuring 20 cities, hosted by Sam Michel.
More at: https://toodlepip.co.uk/2018/20-startup-cities/
ECBN - A Manifesto for InternationalisationCallum Lee
The document outlines 5 principles for effective internationalization of cultural and creative industries in Europe according to the European Creative Business Network (ECBN). The principles are: 1) Internationalization must be led by individual businesses, 2) Face-to-face interaction is important, 3) Internationalization can benefit businesses of any size or sector, 4) Internationalization needs European support through programs and regulations, and 5) Better data and evidence is needed to understand effective internationalization strategies. ECBN and the European Commission should adopt these principles to most effectively support growth of cultural and creative industries internationally.
This document provides an overview and agenda for a funding event focused on innovation funding for creative, digital and design companies. The event will include presentations on intellectual property, European funding opportunities, UK innovation funding landscapes, case studies, and discussions on private finance structures. The agenda covers topics such as compelling market opportunities, products/services, intellectual property, business models, revenue models, and the requirements for different types of public and private funding.
This document provides an overview and agenda for an event on funding innovation in the creative industries. The event will include welcome and overview presentations, discussions on intellectual property, European and UK funding opportunities, and case studies. There will also be presentations on private finance structures, understanding the private investment market, and the funding landscape for innovation including public, private, R&D, and equity/debt sources. The agenda covers topics from 9:00am to 12:00pm with breaks for registration, networking and coffee.
This document provides statistics on Business Innovation Centers (BICs) in Germany and compares them to BICs across the European BIC Network in 2010. It finds that in 2010 there were 6 BICs in Germany that participated in the survey, representing 66.66% of German BICs. On average, German BICs had 46 tenants, employed 231 people, and had 41 contacts for enterprise creation, compared to averages of 31 tenants, 181 employees, and 318 contacts across the European BIC Network. The document provides additional details on the funding, services, training events and outcomes of the German BICs compared to the overall European network in 2010.
This document summarizes a newsletter from the European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN). The newsletter discusses EBN visiting another business incubator called CE
This document provides an introduction and overview of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for use in RoboHelp. It defines key CSS concepts like styles, style sheets, and the cascading priority of styles. It also covers style types, best practices for CSS development, and troubleshooting issues with pre-RoboHelp 8 lists. The document is presented by Neil Perlin of Hyper/Word Services, an internationally recognized content consultant.
Spectrum 2015 going online with style - an intro to cssNeil Perlin
This document introduces CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and provides an overview of some basic CSS concepts:
- CSS allows authors to define styles that can be applied consistently throughout a project for formatting elements like headings, paragraphs, etc. This improves efficiency and consistency compared to local formatting.
- A style sheet is a separate file containing all styles for a project. It cascades in that changes can inherit to child styles.
- The document discusses CSS basics like style rules, the box model, relative sizing units, and different CSS levels.
- It recommends best practices like defining styles upfront in a CSS before authoring and avoiding inline styles.
This document provides statistics on Business Innovation Centers (BICs) in France and compares them to BICs across the European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN) in 2010. Some key findings:
- There were 36 BICs in France participating in the survey out of a total of 148 potential participants across the EBN network.
- French BICs had 311 total staff compared to 1,865 across the network. Their areas of expertise focused more on promotion of SMEs/regions and advanced ICT compared to the network's focus on R&D/university spin-offs and high-tech SME support.
- Most French BIC income came from public sources through national
Topic based and structured authoring - slidesNeil Perlin
The document discusses topic-based and structured authoring approaches. It begins with introductions from the presenter and an overview of the contents. Section 1 defines topic-based authoring as authoring content in topics rather than documents, with each topic answering a single question. Structured authoring is defined as authoring with consistent sectional and stylistic rules. Section 2 discusses rationales for using these approaches, such as flexible reuse of content and consistency. Section 3 covers strategy, such as defining goals, and tactics like project management and standards.
The document provides statistics on Business Innovation Centers (BICs) in Belgium and compares them to BICs across the European Business and Innovation Centre Network. Some key findings are:
- There were 8 BICs in Belgium that participated in the survey, out of a total of 148 potential participants across the network.
- Belgian BICs had a total of 93 staff members and supported over 850 jobs at tenant companies.
- Belgian BICs hosted 236 tenant companies on average and helped raise over €26 million in capital for supported businesses.
- The statistics benchmark Belgian BIC activities and performance against the broader European BIC network.
This document introduces responsive design for online help outputs. It defines responsive design as creating a single output that automatically adapts to different display devices. It discusses how responsive design works using relative size units, media queries, and fluid grids. It also provides examples of how to implement responsive design in Flare and RoboHelp without coding by using their built-in responsive features and outlines best practices for content design.
This document discusses responsive design for online help outputs from tools like Flare and RoboHelp. It covers converting legacy projects, which can involve addressing local formatting, images that are too large or not resizable, tables, and other issues. New issues with responsive design include supporting different image resolutions, handling videos and captions at different screen widths, and optimizing CSS. The document provides examples and suggestions for addressing many of these common challenges.
Spectrum 16 pmc 16 - mobile and tech commNeil Perlin
Mobile technology is spreading beyond just phones and tablets and will significantly impact technical communication. To prepare, technical communicators should define the value they provide, consider new business models, focus on search-based navigation over indexes, write more concisely for mobile, and learn new skills like CSS. In the future, they may need to create true mobile apps, explore new interfaces like voice control, and personalize content based on user analytics. Mobile will change how technical communication is delivered and require adaptation.
Lavacon 2014 responsive design in your hatNeil Perlin
New to responsive design concepts in general? How to do responsive design in MadCap Flare and Adobe RoboHelp? Take a look at my presentation from Lavacon 2014.
This issue of the European BIC Network's quality eMag discusses innovation and quality at Trentino Sviluppo, an Italian business and innovation center (BIC). It provides details on Trentino Sviluppo's history, services, facilities, and programs to support technology transfer and startup companies. It also introduces the EBN's new Soft Landing initiative to help BIC client companies establish international sales presences. Finally, it reminds readers about the upcoming EC-BIC questionnaire and welcomes new full members to the EBN.
"Startup Europe and Funding Opportunities in Horizon 2020" by Bogdan Ceobanu,...Eurapp
Rebooting the EU App Economy / Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin, Germany / 13th November 2013
Bogdan Ceobanu, DG CONNECT, European Commission
"Startup Europe and Funding Opportunities in Horizon 2020"
This document provides information about the EBN Tech Camp taking place December 4-6, 2013 in Rovereto, Trentino, Italy. The Tech Camp will consist of a Tools Exchange Forum where tool developers can pitch their products, a workshop on coaching/mentoring entrepreneurs, end-user testing through Living Labs, and acceleration programs. There will also be peer reviews of three Business and Innovation Centers (BICs). The event is an opportunity for business support professionals, tool designers, and startups/SMEs to network, learn about new tools, and exchange best practices for supporting entrepreneurs and innovation.
The Europe 2020 strategy is rightly focused on competitiveness as the essential condition for economic growth and job-creation in the global 21st century economy.
THE ITALIAN AGENDA: POLICIES AND STRATEGIES FOR STARTUPSValya Chudovskaya
The document outlines Italy's agenda and policies for supporting startups. It discusses the definition of an innovative startup, key support measures including reducing red tape, flexible labor laws, funding incentives, and the Startup Visa. Results so far include over 2,700 high-tech startups established and funds allocated for startup loans. The strengths of Italy include its manufacturing culture and access to strategic markets, while weaknesses include a lack of venture capital and connections between startups and traditional companies. Next steps proposed are increasing entrepreneurship education, developing venture capital, facilitating networking, and promoting collaboration.
Startupbootcamp FinTech is the leading accelerator focused on financial innovation, providing funding, mentorship, office space in the heart of London and access to a global network of investors and VCs, for up to 10 selected FinTech startups.
Startup Cities: Porto, Portugal - Me Convention 2018Chinwag
Maria Miguel, Director of StartUP Portugal presented Porto as part of the Startup Cities programme at the Me Convention 2018 in Stockholm featuring 20 cities, hosted by Sam Michel.
More at: https://toodlepip.co.uk/2018/20-startup-cities/
ECBN - A Manifesto for InternationalisationCallum Lee
The document outlines 5 principles for effective internationalization of cultural and creative industries in Europe according to the European Creative Business Network (ECBN). The principles are: 1) Internationalization must be led by individual businesses, 2) Face-to-face interaction is important, 3) Internationalization can benefit businesses of any size or sector, 4) Internationalization needs European support through programs and regulations, and 5) Better data and evidence is needed to understand effective internationalization strategies. ECBN and the European Commission should adopt these principles to most effectively support growth of cultural and creative industries internationally.
This document provides an overview and agenda for a funding event focused on innovation funding for creative, digital and design companies. The event will include presentations on intellectual property, European funding opportunities, UK innovation funding landscapes, case studies, and discussions on private finance structures. The agenda covers topics such as compelling market opportunities, products/services, intellectual property, business models, revenue models, and the requirements for different types of public and private funding.
This document provides an overview and agenda for an event on funding innovation in the creative industries. The event will include welcome and overview presentations, discussions on intellectual property, European and UK funding opportunities, and case studies. There will also be presentations on private finance structures, understanding the private investment market, and the funding landscape for innovation including public, private, R&D, and equity/debt sources. The agenda covers topics from 9:00am to 12:00pm with breaks for registration, networking and coffee.
Tech City Launchpad 2: London and Cambridge - Internet of Things. Competition Overview and Application Process from Matt Sansam & Matthew Brown from Technology Strategy Board
This document provides information on four Italian organizations that support startups and innovation:
- DPIXEL is a venture capital firm that has invested €150 million, completed four exits, coached 280 teams, and generated €7 million in outside investment for 30 startups.
- MTB is a nonprofit that runs an startup school graduating over 100 entrepreneurs annually, organizes matching events in Europe, and has hosted over 50 events in Italy and Silicon Valley.
- Codemotion is a conference for developers with over 30,000 attendees and 7,000 attendees across Europe in 2014, as well as over 100 tech communities and 5,000 kids at events.
- Starteed develops crowdfunding solutions and
Eit digital accelerator_pitch_deck_2018Dermot Corr
EIT Digital Accelerator helps scale up European digital ventures by providing access to markets, financing, and a pan-European business network. It has offices in 10 countries and partners with over 150 organizations and 300 investors. The accelerator has supported over 260 companies, helping them raise over 150 million euro in venture capital funding and secure over 500 customers. It provides both access to market support through introductions to potential customers, and access to finance support through introductions to investors.
Iurii Blavt, CIVITTA. 100500 ways startup can raise capital at early stage wi...IT Arena
Iurii-Volodymyr Blavt is Associate Partner and Head of Startups and Innovation Division at CIVITTA. Currently Iurii-Volodymyr is leading the Startups and Innovation stream within the company. Iurii is an expert in funding attraction for startups and innovative companies With more than 5 years experience in the field, Iurii has successfully helped numerous Ukrainan and foreign startups to attract funding from European Commission, USAID, Horizon 2020, EBRD, COSME, EXPO 2020 Impact Innovation Grant program and other national and international grant programs. Iurii-Volodymyr is a mentor in a few acceleration programs and is also responsible for design and delivery of startup support programs in Ukraine and abroad. Together with his team, Iurii-Volodymyr is passionate about helping innovative startups and companies to develop scalable business models, identify most promising markers, develop financial models, sales and pricing strategy, increase their investment attraction readiness and bring companies to the next level. Iurii has been involved in strategy development for UNIT.city, the first Innovation Park in Ukraine and is a representative of Altfinator Hub, which aims to facilitate access to alternative financing among Ukrainian innovative SMEs.
The 13th OECD Rural Development Conference was held in Cavan, Ireland on 28-30 September 2022 under the theme "Building Sustainable, Resilient and Thriving
Rural Places".
These are the presentations from the main Conference session "Beyond Recovery: Remote Work and Opportunities for Rural Communities".
For more information visit https://www.oecd.org/rural/rural-development-conference/.
The document provides information about tools that will be showcased at the 1st EBN Tools Exchange Forum in Berlin from November 28-29, 2011. It summarizes 6 tools:
1) The Pandora Risk Management Tool which helps prevent undisclosed risks from threatening companies.
2) The StartupWheel which is a visual toolbox for start-up decision making and planning.
3) The IBCS incubator management software which helps manage innovation/business centers.
4) The Innovation Zone which aims to improve collaboration through open information access.
5) Innocall which is an internet-based tool for managing business centers and incoming calls.
6) The Benchmarking Tool which allows
The document provides statistics on Business Innovation Centers (BICs) in Italy and compares them to BICs across the European BIC Network in 2010. Some key figures: There were 20 Italian BICs participating in the survey out of a total of 148 potential participants across the network. Italian BICs organized 390 events promoting entrepreneurship that were attended by over 16,800 people and provided 167 training events for new and existing SMEs attended by over 3,200 people. The majority of both Italian and network BICs receive public funding and focus on supporting local SMEs and innovation.
This document provides statistics about Business Innovation Centers (BICs) in Spain in 2010, benchmarked against data for the European BIC Network. It finds that 96.4% of Spanish BICs participated in the survey. Most Spanish BICs (85.2%) are hosted within existing organizations, compared to 63.3% across the network. The majority of Spanish BICs have a legal identity as an association (30%) or foundation (26%), while most network BICs are associations (29.8%) or public bodies (9.7%). Spanish BIC ownership is mostly public, with public shareholders making up 71.4% of the total, compared to 67.5% across the network
This document provides statistics about Business Innovation Centers (BICs) in the United Kingdom and compares them to BICs across the European BIC Network in 2010. Some key findings:
- 11 BICs were operating in the UK, representing 72.3% of potential participants in the survey.
- In the UK, 37.5% of BICs were hosted in existing organizations, while 62.5% were new entities. Across the network, the percentages were 36.7% and 63.3% respectively.
- The majority (66.7%) of UK BICs had a legal identity as a public body under special law, compared to 34% across the network.
In this issue: IQ — What is happening in the Middle East? Lebanon: an overview of Berytech visited within the BICBIC program by Al Urdonia Lil Ebda, Jordan. Palestine: the next year supporting the Palestinian ICT Incubator in Ramallah. QI — First feedback on the 2011 Quality process. QS — EC-BICs Experts on line: soon to come the “Ask the expert of the month” feature. QO — Showcase your BICs and your start-ups in the DIGIBIC Awards.
The document discusses the EC-BIC quality criteria and process for business incubation centers seeking EC-BIC certification. It describes the criteria in four areas: general mission, organization, services, and performance evaluation. Centers complete a self-assessment questionnaire and may undergo an evaluation visit. Experts evaluate centers, write reports, and make accreditation recommendations to the BQMC committee. The process aims to boost quality, increase the network, and promote innovation and entrepreneurship.
The document summarizes interviews with three BIC directors - Luigi Campitelli of BIC Lazio in Italy, Joe Greaney of WestBIC in Ireland, and Pascal Hurel of Synergia in France - about their BICs' approaches to supporting internationalization, strategic alliances, financing, tools and best practices. Key points addressed include the importance of international cooperation from an early stage, facilitating partnerships between stakeholders, developing local networks of support organizations, and adapting services to local needs while sharing transferable tools and models. The directors provide examples of initiatives their BICs have created, such as business angel networks, startup competitions, and thematic incubators.
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Q-light: “Spending Quality Time on Quality Issues”
In this issue: IQ — Rob Moss, Managing Director of University of East London, Knowledge Dock, meets José Martins, Managing
Director of NET-BIC do Porto. Some info on NET Porto, and take a look at the video that has been produced during the visit.
Q-tube, EBN opens its own YouTube Channel, discovering innovation through videos. Of course we have opened a call for BIC-
related videos. QI — How does the BIC community support SMEs Internationalisation?
As usual we hope you will enjoy the reading and we do welcome all of your inputs.
Giordano, Gonçalo and Chiara
IQ| Innovation & Quality — BIC²
N.E.T.—Novas Empresas e Tecnologias, S.A. -
BIC do Porto - a Best-in-Class BIC
Last September UK met Portugal... it was not a football match! It
was a BIC-BIC Mission..
Rob Moss, Managing Director of University of East London,
Knowledge Dock (UK), has been welcomed at NET-Novas Empre-
sas e Tecnologias, S.A.- BIC do Porto by Mr. José Martins, the
Managing Director.
NET - BIC do Porto has a long story, started in October 1987 when it was founded by a group of entrepreneurs
and regional authorities, and has the mission to help the creation of innovative business and technological enter-
prises, with high growth potential, promoting the launch of small enterprises and supporting the modernization
of existing SMEs, in the Northern Region of Portugal. NET — BIC do Porto was the forerunner of Portuguese
BICs.
As an entity totally created to the implementation of innovative businesses, having a large experience and know-
how, specially developed to the evaluation of the innovation field, NET – BIC Porto offers a transversal range of
services to entrepreneurs, who are inclined to build new businesses or to modernize their companies.
Specifically NET designed a program providing entrepreneurs with initial capital through the Council of Risk
Program, based on the principle that the remuneration of NET, depends on the success of the new company.
Click here to watch the Video!
BIC² MISSION at N.E.T.—Novas Empresas e Tecnologias, S.A. -
BIC do Porto - a Best-in-Class BIC
By Rob Moss, University of East London, Knowledge Dock (UK)
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NET is a forerunner also for its link with BIC Galicia, their relationship is characterized by a
cross participation of the two BICs in their respective portfolios of shareholders. The Portuguese
-Spanish liaison is actually reflected also in one of the two main projects NET is running :
• PROYECTO ER-INNOVA – “Programa Cooperación Transfronteiriza – España – Portugal”
• BIOTECMAR – “BIOTEChnogical exploitation of MARine products and by-products” - Atlan-
tic Area Programme”
BIC do Porto offers a Toolkit to support entrepreneurs:
The Dictionary of Innovation with 450 terms of innovation and their meanings;
The “Business Datasheets”, where the potential entrepreneur finds extended information about setting up a
company, registration of trademarks and patents, taxes, etc;
The Ideas Consulting Room (Clinic of Ideas), where anyone can clarify doubts about ideas of business, for
new creation companies in order to improve the entrepreneurship and the creation of academic Spin-Offs;
Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurs Club – Web point meeting for all the companies supported by NET, to
promote the cooperation and experiences and best practices exchange.
A message from the Quality Manager
Some changes are occurring in the staff of the quality team. After over two
and half years of work in EBN as a Quality Officer, Gonçalo Reis is leaving for
new adventures. I want to thank him for his most valuable inputs and support
he has provided. So... “good luck for the future, Gonçalo. You are a bright
young man who did very good in EBN and I’m sure will make us feel very
proud of having been your colleagues”.
Gonçalo is being replaced by Ms. Chiara Davalli, who has already been working in the quality team since April 2010.
She and myself, are of course always here to help you on quality, technical assistance and full membership develop-
ment issues. “Bonne chance” to her as well!!! Giordano.
Porto Technology Park, 1025 m²
Chiara DavalliGonçalo Reis
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Q-tube| The European BIC Network Channel
From start-up to start-ups
It was the 23rd of April 2005, when the first video of 19 seconds was uploaded on YouTube. Five years later,
namely today, around 24 hours of videos are uploaded every minute on YouTube exceeding 2 billions views a
day . Year by year services and customers increased exponentially.
YouTube began as a venture-funded technology start-up, primarily from a US$ 11.5 million investment by
Sequoia Capital, and in November 2006 Google paid US$1.65 billion to acquire it. Following the slogan of the
three founders, millions of people broadcast themselves to show their lives, their activities, their passions...
Statistics show that as average a person spends 15 minutes a day on YouTube, hundreds of millions of videos
are watched every month on mobile devices, over 3 million people are connected and auto-sharing to at least
one social network (Source: Website Monitoring Blog)... So,
Why don’t we turn these numbers in favour of our entrepreneurs?
The Quality initiative expands its boundaries to the “Tube”! We created a Channel on YouTube entirely dedi-
cated to innovative entrepreneurship, BICs, Incubators and smart entrepreneurs. Here you can find a collection
of videos (inedited or not) telling about innovation all over the world.
Of course, we are just at the beginning of our broadcasting... We created the box and we gave some inputs
(BICBIC Missions’ videos, the Burgos Congress video, interviews about innovative clusters, etc.), but we invite
you to send and/or suggest videos that you would like to see on our channel, that you would spread to the uni-
verse, that you would see in those 15 minutes calculated as the daily average spent on YouTube.
YouTube started as many of our enterprises do... reading the tendencies, understanding the needs and develop-
ing a smart idea... From start-up to start-ups, to our start-ups! Give them visibility, allow them to show what
they do and see what BICs do and can do for them!
What are you waiting for? BROADCAST YOURSELVES & CHANGE THE CHANNEL!
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Editors: Giordano Dichter, Gonçalo Reis & Chiara Davalli
Responsible for the publication: Philippe Vanrie, EBN CEO www.ebn.eu
QI| Quality Info
A recent study of the European Commission
(Internationalization of European SMEs, 2010) clearly
shows a direct link between internationalization and in-
creased SMEs performances, reinforcing growth, enhancing
competitiveness and supporting their long term sustainabil-
ity. Although European SMEs still largely depend on their
domestic markets, 25% of EU27 SMEs export or have ex-
ported at some point during the last 3 years, mostly geared
towards other countries inside the internal market while only
about 13% of EU SMEs are active in markets outside the EU.
Few figures would give the framework in which European
SMEs internationalize:
• Internationally active SMEs report an employment
growth of 7% versus only 1% for SMEs without any interna-
tional activities.
• 26% of internationally active SMEs introduced products
or services that were new for their sector in their country; for other SMEs this is only 8%.
• Only 16% of SMEs are aware of public support programs for internationalization and only a small number of SMEs use pub-
lic support.
• Overall, European firms are more active than their counterparts in Japan or the US. Even if only extra EU exports are con-
sidered they still perform better.
• SMEs that both import and export started with import
twice as often (39%) than with exports (18%).
What does the BIC community do to support SMEs
internationalization?
• 119 BICs promote internationalization and offer services
to help entrepreneurs and existing SMEs to internationalize;
• 80% of BICs organize events to promote
internationalization;
• 69% of the Network assess entrepreneurs and SMEs
plans prior to internationalize;
• Around 50% of BICs signpost activities for
internationalization to EEN , while almost 80% of them
signpost to the Chambers of Commerce and the 65% to the
Governamental (export) agency.
Questions? Problems? Doubts? Suggestions? Comments?
Contact EBN’s Help Desk
Open on working days 9—17:30
Tel: +32-2-7611094 Skype: ebn.helpdesk