VIRTUAL SPIN-OFF INCUBATION

THE CEBT MODEL

JOINT PAXIS PROJECTS WORKSHOP“New Strategies for Innovation Support”

Salamanca, 23-24 June 2005

Eduardo DíazFundación para el Conocimiento madri+d

A program that offers:

Entrepreneurial training Connection to investors Networking other business assistance services,

primarily online.

NBIA DEFINITION

Virtual incubation

CEBT: The Virtual Incubator concept

Based on regional NETWORKING of universities, r&d

institutions and firms´ associations. Regional Administration promotes and co-finances

VALUE-ADDED SERVICES to individual incubators and

entrepreneurship programmes. COMMON services, procedures and assessment. Offering both OFF-LINE and ON-LINE services. Growing

importance of telematic services.

A part of a broader REGIONAL system to support the

creation of NTBFs ( ).

Link research centres with business sectors. Four main ways of doing so:

CEBT (Creation of NTBF)

Innovation Circles (Technology Watch)

Madrid IRC (Technology Transfer)

Website

: Objective

Origin: RITTS exercise

R&D Institutions CEIMContracts 2005-2008

All the partners are:

Customers, because they receive the services

Suppliers, because experts and researchers are the staff of the service involved

Shareholders, because all of services are co-financing by the institutions

R&D Regional Department as Coordinator

Services

: Structure

: Members involved (28)

• 11 Universities placed in Madrid

UPM, UAM, UAH, UCM...etc

• 12 Public Research Centres

CSIC, INTA, CIEMAT...etc

• Enterprise associations (regional and national)

CEIM, Chamber of Commerce, Aniel...

• Municipalities (City Councils/Halls)

168 in the region of Madrid

: CEBT Action

OBJECTIVES: NTBF CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT

ENTREPRENEUR COOPERATIONSPREADING INNOVATION CULTURE

OBJECTIVES: NTBF CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT

ENTREPRENEUR COOPERATIONSPREADING INNOVATION CULTURE

CEBT INSTITUTIONS (11)CEBT INSTITUTIONS (11)

EUROPEANPROJECTS: PAXIS,

Gate2Growth

EUROPEANPROJECTS: PAXIS,

Gate2Growth

Creation of a “critical mass”

Universities Research Centres- UCM - CSIC (National- UPM Research Council)- UAM - INTA (Aerospace)- UAH- URJC Employers confederation- UCIII - CEIM- UNED- UPCOOther institutions:National: CDTI (Ministry for Science and Technology; enterprise oriented)Regional: Chamber of Commerce

CEBT Action : Members involved (11)

CEBT Services : Policy improvement, awareness and detection of ideas

Policy improvement: Studies and action plans to improve internal NTBF policies.

Awareness: Seminars to show the way to commercialize research results and how the ideas have to be presented to the Institution.

Evaluation of Ideas: Ideas are evaluated and followed-up by each Institution.

Training of promoters: International training through Gate2Growth.

Training of entrepreneurs: to obtain a business plan (approx. 120h+20h of mentoring by professional consultants) and other specific courses.

Mentoring: Support to develop business plan, viability studies, etc.

IPR & Technology watch: Support by the Innovation Circles of the madri+d System, patents, etc.

Technology Transfer: Support through the IRC

CEBT Services : Pre-incubation (business plan and company creation)

Information and Documentation: Virtual services and assistance provided through madri+d, www.madrimasd.org/emprendedores

Coaching: Support to start of activity by experts

Search for financing: CEBT has no financial support for NTBF, yet actions have been launched to help NTBF find funds (agreement with CDTI-Neotec)

Search for space: Space identification besides space provided by incubators,…

Cooperation between entrepreneurs: Meetings of entrepreneurs besides each incubator,..

CEBT Services : incubation (companies created within max. 2 years)

CEBT Action: some results since 2000

• 10 Courses for Entrepreneurs (169 attendees)• 5 Courses for Promoters (61 attendees)• 225 Ideas evaluated• Mentoring of 207 entrepreneurial projects• 46 Awareness Seminars, 2 spin-off

competitions• 62 Technology Based Firms created

– ICT (28, 12 Telco)– Biotechnology, Health & Agro-food (14, 10 biotec), – Environment (6), – Industrial manufacturing (3), – Others (11, 3 related to construction)

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: Learning from others´experienceSPRING Network

PAXIS-SPRING: Working groups

Entrepreneurship (led by Dirección General de Investigación - Comunidad de Madrid)

Intellectual Capital (led by Economic Development Agency Stockholm / Kista Science Park)

Spreading Innovation Culture (led by East of England Development Agency)

Early Stage Financing (led by Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH)

Raise awareness among decision makers

Focus data collection efforts on what is very important for any given region at any given time

Know whether or not the region is making progress towards the planned/desired objectives

Evaluate the effectiveness of NTBF support actions

Improve the quality and development impact of these actions

Monitoring NTBF creation support. Need to:

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• EFQM analysis (radial)• Intellectual capital analysis• Competence bearer model

Thank you for your attention!

Contact details

Eduardo DíazHead of Unit New Technology Based Firms PromotionFundación para el Conocimiento madri+dVelázquez, 76 28001 MadridSpain

Phone: +34 91 781 65 70E-mail: ediaz@madrimasd.orgWeb page: www.madrimasd.org/emprendedores