Rural-Etinet project: Best practice document

The Rural-Etinet project produced the document "Best practice document for the setting up of SME networks and the facilitation of SME participation in the European 'Framework Programme' for Research and Development."... For more details...

Image recognition through turbulent media by MEMS micromirror-based Adaptive Optics

The Fraunhofer IPMS has developed a fine segmented 240 x 200 micro mirror array for high-resolution optical wavefront control including also the complete driver hardware and software.... For more details...

Kilkenny Entrepreneurs have Plenty of Big Ideas !

Adrian Murphy is the inaugural winner of the Bright Ideas Competition. The competition, which is co-sponsored by the Kilkenny County Enterprise Board, South East Business Innovation Centre (SEBIC) and the Kilkenny People, was launched earlier this year to help encourage budding entrepreneurs in County Kilkenny to take the leap from business idea to start-up reality.... For more details...

ERA ENV project exceeds expectations at halfway stage

The EU funded ERA ENV project, designed to encourage organisations from the new Member States and candidate countries to participate in the 'global change and ecosystems' priority of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), has exceeded expectations at the halfway stage, according to the project's coordinator... For more details...

Plastitehase working with Best Innovation Practice (BIP)

Best Innovation Practice (BIP) is an online innovation tool designed to structure a formal innovation process within European plastics and electronics SMEs. Amongst the first ones to be able to test the tool, one of Estonia's leading plastic recycler, Plastitehase, followed the BIP process. ... For more details...

Swedish student company wins entrepreneurship award for pedestrian mood reflectors

Young innovators in Sweden have been rewarded for their 'pedestrian mood reflectors' through the Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise (JA-YE) European company of the year competition... For more details...

Oxford Innovation selected to manage Silverstone Innovation Centre

Silverstone Estates Ltd today announced that Oxford Innovation, the UK's leading operator of innovation centres, has been appointed to manage Silverstone Innovation Centre. The £4.2m Centre, a joint venture between British Racing Drivers Club and the East Midlands Development Agency designed to house up to 40 high performance engineering start-up and growing companies, is attracting strong interest and seven companies will have moved in by early June.... For more details...

New world-class incubator for hi-tech start-ups

A new world-class incubator for hi-tech start-ups has opened its doors for business on the Alba Campus in Livingston and expects to sign up its first tenants later this month.
Innovation Centres (Scotland) Ltd (ICS) has been awarded the £1.4m contract to run the business incubator which is expected to help create more than 50 new companies over the next five years. ... For more details...

Paris Innovation - OUR SUCCESS STORIES

Après leur passage par Paris Innovation, des entreprises se sont définitivement implantées à Paris. Les porteurs de projets témoignent...... For more details... (French version only)

South Moravia wants to lead in innovations

The South Moravian region wants to become a leading area within the Czech Republic in the field of the innovative entrepreneurship. What's more, it wants to be ranked among top 50 regions in the whole European Union it that category. ... For more details...

Agoranov passe le cap de la 50 ème entreprise et se réjouit de la quatrième levée de fonds réalisée en 2004 par une start-up incubée

En ce début d'année 2005, l'incubateur public parisien Agoranov se réjouit de voir naître une 50 ème entreprise à partir des 69 projets incubés à ce jour, ce qui porte aussi à plus de 200 le nombre d'emplois créés. Il ressort également d'une étude réalisée durant l'été 2004 en partenariat avec la Mairie de Paris que les 22 entreprises sorties de l'incubateur à cette date se portaient plutôt bien, puisqu'elles avaient généré en 2003 un CA global de 1,7 M€, alors que leur âge moyen au 31/12/03 n'était que de 21 mois. Agoranov contribue ainsi activement au renouvellement du tissu des start-ups franciliennes et à la création d'emplois high-tech pérennes à proximité des laboratoires de recherche. ... For more details... (French version only)

UWSP wins '2004 Incubator of the Year' Award

The University of Warwick Science Park was hailed as the 'Incubator of the Year' at UK Business Incubation Awards in Cardiff. This is the first year that UKBI has run an open awards programme making the competition particularly challenging.

The science park was chosen ahead of dozens of other similar parks and business incubators across the UK, because of the services it offers to young businesses to help them grow... For more details...

I3P Turin Incubator wins Best Science Based Incubator Award 2004

The Italian Incubator I3P Scpa Incubator of Turin Technical University has won the annual international award for Best Science Based Incubator 2004.

Through an international benchmarking exercise organized by Science Alliance and the Centre for Strategy and Evaluation Services (CSES), combined with the judgment of an international expert jury, I3P Scpa Incubator won the Award during the Third Annual Conference on Best Practices in Science Based Incubators ... For more details...

Biosystems International : première levée de fond de 3 millions d'euros

Dans un contexte économique peu favorable au financement des biotechs françaises, l'entreprise Biosystems International installée à Genopole® est parvenue à réaliser une importante première levée de fonds de 3 M€.... For more details... (French version only)

ISLATEC - Development of high tech entrepreneurship in the EU islands

The kick-off meeting of the partners of the pilot program "ISLATEC - Fostering Entrepreneurship geared towards the development of high-tech start-ups by new and recent University graduates in the EU islands" took place at the premises of Athena High Technology Incubator, the projects contractor and coordinator, in Nicosia, Cyprus on 13-14 December 2004.

ISLATEC is a result of the successful application by Athena High Technology Incubator to the call of the second phase of the Leonardo Da Vinci program with a budget of 605.996 Euros out ... For more details...

6ème édition : le concours d'aide à la création d'entreprises de technologies innovantes s'affirme comme un dispositif puissant de soutien à l'innovation en France

Le concours d'aide à la création d'entreprises de technologies innovantes, doté de 30 M€, a aujourd'hui 5 ans. Un anniversaire qui permet de faire un premier bilan et de mesurer les effets des aides publiques à la création d'entreprises.
Depuis le lancement du concours en 1999, 600 entreprises innovantes ont été créées et, fait remarquable, 94 % d'entre elles sont toujours en activité. A cela deux raisons : l'excellence de leurs projets et l'accompagnement des créateurs d'entreprises. ... For more details... (French version only)

ActiveFU - breast cancer gets 'down to earth' treatment from space

A Dutch entrepreneur, supported by ESINET, the joint EU-European Space Agency (ESA) space incubators network, is developing a non-invasive cancer treatment using technologies developed for satellite simulations and other space applications.
Hugo Brunsveld van Hulten, a mathematician from the Netherlands with interests in remote sensing, has worked with medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques since the early nineties. Recently, he recognised that advances in MRI systems from passive diagnostic scanners towards ... For more details...

Technoport: Success Stories

A number of companies within our High Growth Network Programme, are successful companies from our Startup programme. These are companies, which are now generating significant revenue, across many international markets, who have benefited significantly from their experience within the Startup Programme ... For more details...

The Eurasanté Bio-incubator: PROTEAXIS

Set up in June 2000, Proteaxis provides proteomic analyses (separation, identification, characterization). These services are particularly offered to agrifood, pharmaceutical industries and to biotech firms (R&D; and Quality Control). Seven jobs have already been created... For more details...

The North East Business & Innovation Centre (BIC) - is definitely a case of a Phoenix having risen from the ashes

The North East Business & Innovation Centre (BIC) is a major regeneration success story for the region, and is currently celebrating ten years of supporting new and innovative businesses. Located on the north bank of the River Wear, its inception and development are something of a fairy tale come true, as it has grown in phases over the decade... For more details...

"Mjärdevi Science Park shall be the right environment for establishment and growth of knowledge and development intensive companies."

Mjärdevi Science Park is one of northern Europe's largest technology parks. Over the last decade, the park has grown very quickly, and it continues to have great potential for future growth and development. Mjärdevi Science Park started in 1984 with six companies and 150 employees. In the middle of 2002, the park had 165 companies with 4500 employees. Underlying this growth are the significant efforts from many cooperating interested parties. Cooperation and collaboration are a precondition for fulfilling Mjärdevi Science Park's vision. That vision is:.... For more details...

Résultats du 6e Concours "création d'entreprises innovantes"

François d'Aubert, ministre délégué à la Recherche, et Denis Ranque, Pdg de Thales, président du jury, ont remis les prix de la sixième édition du Concours national d'aide à la création d'entreprises de technologies innovantes, le 29 juin 2004 à la Sorbonne, à Paris. Ce concours récompense les personnes qui ont su relever le défi de l'innovation et prendre le pari de la création d'entreprise... For more details... (French version only)

Favoriser la participation des PME en biotechnologie aux projets de recherche de l'UE

La réunion de lancement du consortium NATIBS (New Approaches and Tools for Incubated Biotechs SMEs) a eu lieu les 24 et 25 mai dernier. L'objectif de ce programme doté d'un budget total de 810 377 Euros financé à 80% par la Commission Européenne, est de faciliter la participation des entreprises innovantes aux programmes européens. Un constat s'impose en effet : face à la densité actuelle d'informations, les start-up, qui présentent pourtant un très fort potentiel d'innovation, ne peuvent dégager le temps et les moyens humains et financiers nécessaires pour identifier les possibilités de participation au 6e programme-cadre et répondre aux appels d'offres. Pour remédier à ce problème l'Union Européenne a mis en place les mesures de soutien ETI ("Economic and Technological Intelligence"). C'est dans ce cadre que le consortium NATIBS a été créé... For more details... (French version only)

BioPartner Life Sciences Sector Report 2004 'Moving Forward'

By March 2004, a total of 45 companies had located themselves in the various BioPartner Centers. Approximately three-quarters of these companies are life sciences start-up companies. In the coming years, the occupation rate is expected to increase, as 2 Centers (Maastricht and Utrecht) first opened their doors to tenants only in early 2004..... For more details...

Genopole® signe une convention de partenariat avec l'incubateur californien ACET

Le 8 juin dernier, à San Francisco lors de la conférence internationale BIO 2004, Genopole® et l'incubateur californien ACET (Advancing California's Emerging Technologies) ont signé une convention de partenariat. Cet accord qui lie Genopole® à un acteur important .... For more details... (French version only)

IZET Innovationszentrum Itzehoe -awarded with the quality label "Approved Innovation Centre"

IZET Innovationszentrum Itzehoe sets impulses for the economical and technological development of the region and the microtechnology-cluster Hightech Itzehoe.

At the centre of an innovative neighbourhood of hightech companies in microtechnology and IT applications, we practise technology transfer, facilitate company start-up and growth and invoke product innovations thus ... For more details...

Chiffres clés - ATLANPOLE

TECHNOPOLE du bassin économique de Nantes Atlantique, ATLANPOLE a vocation à rapprocher entrepreneurs et chercheurs et ainsi, à favoriser la création et le développement d'entreprises innovantes. Dotée depuis 1997 d'un CENTRE EUROPEEN D'ENTREPRISES ET D'INNOVATION, et labellisée depuis fin 1999 INCUBATEUR par le MInistère de la Recherche, la technopole nantaise a ainsi renforcé ses moyens pour faire émerger... For more details... (French version only)

City Incubator in Norwich - About YTKO

YTKO has 25 years' experience in ensuring innovative businesses fulfil their commercial potential. Our track record of success from our Cambridge incubator speaks for itself. Since 2000 we have worked with over 150 new companies. We have generated 66 new jobs and accessed over £1.5 million in early stage funding from business angels and venture capital trusts in 2003... For more details...

Genopole®-Companies, Results

The commitment and energy of scientists and entrepreneurs, supported by regional governments, have borne their first fruits. GenOdyssee, founded in October 1999, is a biotechnologies company, which received the support of Genopole®. According to Ernst & Young, the environment in Evry made the strong growth possible, creating in just one year a viable reality for this start-up specializing in genetic marker research.

Another example: UroGene ... For more details...

EURASANTE BIO-INCUBATOR RESULTS

Seven committees have already met, two in 2000, two in 2001 and three in 2002. These committees have validated the introduction of 33 start-up or young company projects into the bio-incubation process. Of these 33 projects mentioned above, two were abandoned and 20 companies were founded, representing already about 115 jobs. 17 companies left the bio-incubation ... For more details...

Promopole, les atouts de votre réussite

Depuis 1987, Promopole aide les créateurs et jeunes chefs d'entreprise à réussir leur implantation à Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Mise à disposition de locaux, de matériel et de services communs, conseils personnalisés et mise en contact avec les partenaires publics et privés de l'entreprise... For more details... (French version only)

CREALYS a détecté en février 2004 plus de 300 créateurs

Actif depuis septembre 1999, CREALYS a détecté février 2004 plus de 300 créateurs.
106 projets ont été sélectionnés par le comité d'engagement et 46 entreprises sont aujourd'hui créées (environ 200 emplois créés).... For more details... (French version only)

Emergence-Incubateur du Maine involved in 24 company start-up projects

Originally, and as the Ministry of Research proposal stated, the incubators quantitave aim was to accompany 12 to 15 technological and service company start up projects over a three-year period. After the two first years of ctivities, Emergence-Incubateur du Maine had already achieved this aim. Indeed, Emergence-Incubateur du Maine has on-going, dynamic relationships with its partners... For more details...

Wirtschaftsinitiativen Leoben GmbH - The Story of Our Success

Since the founding of WIL in the year 1997, we have been able to realize a number of projects in the city of Leoben, which were able to set novel impulses for economic development throughout the area, due to strategic planning. The development of the Logistics Center Leoben, the business park Leoben West, and the industrial park Leoben East designate the... For more details...

RIZ - Easy startup

RIZ is the best service that new entrepreneurs and innovative people in Lower Austria can turn to. As a regional association, RIZ is involved in the establishment of business incubation centres and the initiation of start-up processes, while at the same time activating the potential for regional ... For more details...

BioInstrumentation Center success speaks for itself

18 companies have moved into BioInstruments Centre since its founding in September 2000.It has been almost continually one hundred per cent occupied since this time. Due to the advantages of the services and location at the ... For more details...

2003 WAS A YEAR OF STRONG GROWTH FOR TECHNOPOLIS

Technopolis Plc had an outstanding year in 2003. The company achieved strong growth and good profitability. Net sales and net profit reached record levels. During the year, the company expanded to the Helsinki metropolitan area and now operates at Helsinki-Vantaa and at Otaniemi in Espoo, as well as in the Oulu region. "The economic environment was quite challenging, but Technopolis' versatile service concept ... For more details...

Onze projets ont déjà été présentés au comité de sélection, neuf ont été retenus.

Quinze projets entrent actuellement dans le processus d'incubation. Cinq en phase de montage et de pré-incubation. Dix en incubation et sous contrat avec l'incubateur et plusieurs laboratoires de recherche.

Ces dix projets mobilisent seize laboratoires de recherche différents. D'ores et déjà sept d'entre eux se sont concrétisés par la création d'une entreprise dont qui est une sortie du dispositif d'incubation avec succès. ... For more details... (French version only)