13th EBN Congress: "Industry leaders and small business: leading the way together" Malaga, 17-18 June 2004
17 June 2004 - 18 June 2004
Spain
This years Congress will concentrate on the co-operation between large corporate and SMEs, with the aim to implement at a European network level, the objectives of the Irish Presidency: Lets boost European economic growth and competitiveness.
Corporates are looking at all options from downsizing and outsourcing to new business models, such as external networking, for R&D. A clear opportunity is emerging to explore and improve models of partnership and co-operation between corporate leaders and clusters of innovative small businesses. This challenge is being taken up in the 13th Annual EBN Congress where the different forms of win-win partnership will be systematically explored.
Industrial spin-off, technology transfer and licensing of internal patents, R&D outsourcing, clever clustering, corporate venturing, joint venturing, corporate incubation, collaborative business development these are some of the strategies to be developed and discussed in the workshops and roundtables of the Congress.
European Community Business & Innovation Centres EC BICs are business and innovation support instruments assisting regional and local economic development. Their role is to provide high profile and multi-disciplinary professional support to innovative entrepreneurs and SMEs throughout a complete set of incubation and innovation services within an internationalisation context. ,EC BICs are collectively represented by EBN the European BIC Network a non-profit making association based in Brussels. EBN is a membership-driven organisation delivering a range of services aiming at co-ordinating the activities of the BICs, developing and promoting the BIC concept within and outside the European Union. Since its creation in 1984, EBN has grown substantially and there are now 160 BICs (full members) and incubators in 30 countries in addition to 70 associate members who share the same objective of SME support and development. The EC-BIC label is a registered trademark supported by a quality system managed by EBN through an exclusive licence agreement with the EC. ,EBN fits within the B2Europe initiative launched by the EC aiming at connecting harmoniously the main Community SME support networks: Business & Innovation Centres, Innovation Relay Centres, Euro Info Centres, National Contact Points.
For further information on EBN and the BICs: http://www.ebn.be
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Corporates are looking at all options from downsizing and outsourcing to new business models, such as external networking, for R&D. A clear opportunity is emerging to explore and improve models of partnership and co-operation between corporate leaders and clusters of innovative small businesses. This challenge is being taken up in the 13th Annual EBN Congress where the different forms of win-win partnership will be systematically explored.
Industrial spin-off, technology transfer and licensing of internal patents, R&D outsourcing, clever clustering, corporate venturing, joint venturing, corporate incubation, collaborative business development these are some of the strategies to be developed and discussed in the workshops and roundtables of the Congress.
European Community Business & Innovation Centres EC BICs are business and innovation support instruments assisting regional and local economic development. Their role is to provide high profile and multi-disciplinary professional support to innovative entrepreneurs and SMEs throughout a complete set of incubation and innovation services within an internationalisation context. ,EC BICs are collectively represented by EBN the European BIC Network a non-profit making association based in Brussels. EBN is a membership-driven organisation delivering a range of services aiming at co-ordinating the activities of the BICs, developing and promoting the BIC concept within and outside the European Union. Since its creation in 1984, EBN has grown substantially and there are now 160 BICs (full members) and incubators in 30 countries in addition to 70 associate members who share the same objective of SME support and development. The EC-BIC label is a registered trademark supported by a quality system managed by EBN through an exclusive licence agreement with the EC. ,EBN fits within the B2Europe initiative launched by the EC aiming at connecting harmoniously the main Community SME support networks: Business & Innovation Centres, Innovation Relay Centres, Euro Info Centres, National Contact Points.
For further information on EBN and the BICs: http://www.ebn.be
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