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Science Parks Shaping New Cities

November 12, 2013. Source:

The International Association of Science Parks (IASP) held its 30th World Conference “Science Parks Shaping New Cities” in Recife, Brazil, in October 2013, together with the “XXIII National Seminar on Science Parks and Business Incubation” of the Brazilian Association of Science Parks and Business Incubators (ANPROTEC). These events were hosted by Porto Digital, Recif... more

Jordan: Young Women find Support to start their own Business

November 08, 2013. Source:

The Jordanian capital Amman hosted a Women's Entrepreneurship Day in early November 2013 held by the Jordan Forum for Business & Professional Women (JFBPW). This event was part of a Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) project “Young Women as Job Creators”, aiming to help young women start up their own businesses. Some 30 young women and male students from six Jordani... more

WANTED: Entrepreneurial Ideas to impact Education for India’s underprivileged Youth

November 07, 2013. Source:

Deadline: November 25, 2013 Central Square Foundation and Villgro have announced the launch of the second annual Edupreneur Quest. This business competition aims at enabling highly talented 'edupreneurs' to translate their ideas into reality. What is needed is the next big idea to promote high quality education for the over 240 million children in India. Applications are possible until November 25... more

SPARK Ignite!

November 02, 2013. Source:

SPARK's annual conference on “Youth Entrepreneurship Development in Conflict Affected Environments” will be held during the Global Entrepreneurship Week on Wednesday, November 20th in Amsterdam, the Netherlands at De Rode Hoed. A focus of this event will be on the importance of creating economic stability in post conflict states. The program will include keynote prese... more

It’s an Economic Imperative

November 02, 2013. Source:

The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) “ACT4Growth “ does not see Female Entrepreneurship as a gender issue. ACT4Growth says “It’s an Economic Imperative“ and contributes to creating jobs, growth and sustainability Act4Growth proposes four specific policy interventions to increase female entrepreneurship in the European Union as a strategy for economic growth:1... more

Call for Papers: Senenth International Conference (ICEIRD 2014

November 02, 2013. Source:

A preliminary call for papers has been published for the 7th International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development (ICEIRD 2014) that will be held June 5-6, 2014 in Nicosia, Cyprus under the theme: Igniting Regional Economies - Knowledge, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in South East Europe Conference Topics of Interest are - Creativity, Complexity and Competitiveness... more

Nepal: infoDev supported Agribusiness Innovation Center

October 29, 2013. Source:

The infoDev report ”Promoting Agribusiness Innovation in Nepal” informs about the results of a feasibility study for an Agribusiness Innovation Center (AIC). This AIC would be aimed at the agro-processing sector in Nepal; the study proposes a sustainable business model. Objective of this AIC would be to foster and accelerate the growth the agro-processing sector of Nepal and to help co... more

infoDev Business Incubation Training in Bahrain

October 28, 2013. Source:

The Bahrain Business Incubator Center (a subsidiary of Bahrain Development Bank Group) in association with the Middle East and North Africa Incubators Network (MENAinc) January 26 – 29, 2014 is organizing a new session of the infoDev Business Incubation Management Training Program. This training program will be held in Bahrain and is designed for business incubation managers and other busine... more

Catalyst for Satellite Navigation Services in the EUROMED region

October 28, 2013. Source:

GEMCO, the Galileo EUROMED Cooperation Office has been opened in Elgazala Technopark on October 23, 2013. This office will act as a catalyst for the introduction and development of satellite navigation services in the Euromed region of North Africa and the Middle East. EUROMED includes Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. GEMCO will act as an i... more

Stockholm has a new Co-Working Space

October 28, 2013. Source:

Since the beginning of October 2013 Stockholm has an new co-working space right in the center of the city SUP46 (Start-Up People of Sweden). “Our vision is to make Stockholm the number one startup city in the world. SUP46 will become an important part of the ecosystem to contribute to more Swedish success stories.” said Jessica Stark, CEO and Co-founder of SUP46 at the opening that was... more

25th Anniversary of ADT celebrated

October 26, 2013. Source:

The ADT, Federal Association of German Technology and Business Incubation Centers, celebrated its 25th Anniversary in September 2013 with a conference held where it all began: in Berlin. Under the title “Innovation Centers 2020” this event looked forward to the future of business incubation – but did not forget to evaluate developments of the recent 25 years, for example in... more

Innovation Tree planted in Latvia

October 24, 2013. Source:

“The place where the past, the present and the future of the people as well as the nation merge”: Latvia’s Garden of Destiny near Koknese on an island in Latvia’s largest river, the Daugava River.The creation of this national monument of Latvia, the “Garden of Destiny” started in 2008 with planting the apple tree alley and is scheduled to be finalized when... more

NBIA Fall Training in Fort Worth, Texas found great attention

October 23, 2013. Source:

125 incubation professionals gathered for NBIA’s 23rd Training Institute recently. As usual this event offered plenty of opportunities for networking, conviviality and learning. A visit to a top-notch local Incubator, Tech Fort Worth, completed the program. The Training Institute also offered workshops for incubator managers working toward a NBIA Incubator Management Certificate. This NBIA p... more

Sustainability and Benchmarking for Polish Business Incubators

October 22, 2013. Source:

The annual conference of PBICA, Polish Business and Innovation Center Association, this year was held in May in Łódź, Poland under the title “Financing Innovation and Regional Development”. This title is reflecting the challenge business and innovation centers are facing institutions in view of the upcoming funding period 2014-2020. Therefore, presentations and discussions du... more

Poland: New Element of Incubation Model in Science Parks

October 20, 2013. Source: Anna Torz

The Science and Technology Parks in Poznan and Gliwice work in very different environments. So they are different. However, under the theme “Joint activities – new element of incubation model in Poznan Science and Technology Park and Science and Technology Park Gliwice” these two parks worked on a joint project. The aim was to learn how to use each other’s experiences and t... more

New Mexico: First NMSU Startup Weekend in Las Cruces

October 19, 2013. Source: Amanda Bradford

For the Global Entrepreneurship Week in November the Arrowhead Center, New Mexico State University College of Engineering and other partners sponsor Las Cruces’ first Startup Weekend, beginning Nov 15, 2013. Anyone is welcome to pitch a startup idea and receive feedback from peers. By popular vote the top ideas are identified, teams form around these ideas, and then have 54-hours to create t... more

New Innovation Award for Innovative Companies

October 18, 2013. Source:

For the first time this year the Network of Technology Centers in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (VTMV) has awarded the innovation price INNO AWARD. The winners received their awards during a ceremony in June 2013 in the Technology Center Warnemünde. 51 applications were received – a number higher than expected for the first time. The applications covered a wide range of industries, for example... more

Berlin - a leading European start-up hub

October 10, 2013. Source:

A McKinsey study on Berlin as a top-location in Europe for start-ups finds the city on rank 5 of the European top start-up cities – only behind “Tel Aviv, London, Paris, and Moscow”. This result shows that Berlin indeed has developed dramatically. In the eighties it was said hat “entrepreneurship” is not known in Germany. This in 1983 had been one of the reasons to st... more