Latin American Center Business and Services Project Julio Vallejo Medina Project Manager Seinajoki university of Applied Sciences

Business in Mexico Seminar

Project Overall objetive Creation of a Latin American Business and Services center

Goals and Contents of the project

GOALS Creation of the concept for the Center To found out in local companies’ information of the needs needs related to the entrance / business development in Latin America through interviews. Interviews of individual companies. Focus groups. Interviews of specialists in the Region.

Providing solutions for the information needs of the companies through services developed in the Latin American business and service center by utilizing the services which already exist at SeAMK or something we have earlier already done. Services are carried out by the students Services are also created to use resources of our existing university network abroad e.g. in Spain, Portugal and Latin America (e.g. Mexico, Brazil)and Argentina)

In the future we can start new R&D projects with the help of the created Business and Service Center to be carried out in South Ostrobothnia an others Regions. Networking is the key for success. Development of Business Competence and Knowledge Capital in the area related to Latin America (e.g. network between companies and students). Creation and activation of specialist network for the development of business towards Latin America

Contents and timetable (1) Interviews of individual companies (telephone interviews / personal interviews (about 50 companies) October 2013 – March 2014 Analysis of the interviews on April 2014 – May 2014 Development of services on August / September 2014 Further development of services in focus groups on October 2014 – December 2014

Contents and timetable (2) Documentation of the created services on January / February 2015 Informing about the results and finalization of the report of the project on January / February 2015

Results of the interviews of the Companies Very interested, 21 companies - Interested 9, companies – Not interested 7, companies 10

WORSHOPS WITH FOCUS GRUOPS First pilot worshop 8 th of May Participation of 5 Companies Trhee more workshop in Otoum 2014

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