This document outlines plans to create a pan-European platform and cooperative to support entrepreneurship and startups. The platform will host 400 entrepreneurship stakeholders and provide services like mentoring, training, profiling, and facilitating cooperation agreements between members. It aims to establish 20 local hubs across Europe coordinated by a European Cooperative Society that will manage the platform. The goals are to recruit 300 startups, 50 entrepreneurship executives, and provide support services to help startups with design, development, production, commercialization, management, and financing needs as they scale internationally.
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Entrepreneurship has assumed a great importance for
boosting the economic growth
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Emerging entrepreneurs support necessities
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High competitive business environment, speed of
technological changes and accelerated product cycles
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EU facilitates for entrepreneurs engagement in cross-
border business, by the creation of cooperative enterprises
.. considering that
6. 1) build the platform hosting at least 400 entrepreneurship actors and
stakeholders acting integrated competitively worldwide and identifying,
sharing and deploying replicable cost-effective entrepreneurial solutions
across Europe;
2) procure innovative cooperation support services, learning and
training resources, competences approach and standard protocols,
mediation for bartering exchange of cooperation services and facilities to
access to financial resources and EU grants, for the creation, product-
prototyping, consolidation and internationalisation of start-up companies;
3) establish an European Cooperative Society (SCE) start-up company
for the platform management and exploitation.
.. we are proposing 3-main challenges:
7. 1.Platform online tools and offline activities
2.Community actively interacting
3.Continuous collective services development
4.Services procurement & Marketplace
5.Responsible & Sustainable exploitation throughout EU
.. and 5-main objectives:
8. 20 local-hubs coordinators
20 associated partners,
300 startups community
50 entrepreneurship executives
10 back-office workers (SCE cooperative)
80 supporters from local-hub networks
20 Sponsors and patrons
100 Coordinated Expert Community (CEC)
.. for hosting, at the end 8 communities:
all them interacting actively for startup development and business generation
9. Entrepreneurs for the creation of startups
.. providing support and facilities to
and startups for their fast development
and internationalisation
10. At The Hatcheries in each local-hub:
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Mentoring each startup by a team of experts.
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'Europeanisation Guide for startups' for each country and 'Cooperation Guide for
Startups Development', two initial guides for Startups produced collectively.
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Individual Development Plan (IDP) agreed with each tutored enterprise.
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Common Support services: 'Profiling', 'Landing', 'Licensing', 'Financing' and
'Funding'.
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'Interactive showroom' for wide visibility, accessibility and voting facilities, and
advanced search and visualisation of multimedia Startups Profile Search (PS).
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'Cooperation Agreement Mediation' for completing and complementary cooperation
ways to scale up faster the IDP of growing startups.
At the BECS marketplace and banking services:
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BECS Market for facilitating the exchange of services among platform's members
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BECS Banking for facilitating the payments in (€) or (±), through the online platform
or by mobile.
.. providing the following high-quality cooperative services:
19. .. Identifying entrepreneurship good experiences:
'success-failure cases', 'best-practices', 'lessons-
learnt', 'monitor results', etc.
.. putting them in cost-effective solutions
20. .. monitoring ad evaluating entrepreneurship conditions & actions results
26. Entrepreneurship StakeholdersEntrepreneurship Stakeholders
co-working places, incubators, accelerators, technological parks;
professionals, executives and their organisations;
research, academia and educational institutions;
business and employer organisations;
NGOs and the media; ...
29. Experts in:
Entrepreneurship & Innovation training, tutoring,
mediating, investing,... entrepreneurs and
startups companies, such as:
- Innovation centres, incubators, accelerators,
local entrepreneurship public/private agencies
- Academic innovation/entrepreneurship
departments
- Private business consultants, mentors, tutors,
investors,.. providing services to entrepreneurs
and startups
- Cooperation and cooperatives experts
For:
- Recruiting and supporting entrepreneurs and
start-ups,
- Develop of innovation contents, methods and
services based on virtual (web/mobile)
environment and offline activities
- Provision of entrepreneurship support services
- Producing the three main STARTINNOCOOP
milestones: Platform, Services and Cooperative.
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