1. VIRTUAL SPIN-OFF INCUBATION THE CEBT MODEL JOINT PAXIS PROJECTS WORKSHOP “New Strategies for Innovation Support” Salamanca, 23-24 June 2005 Eduardo Díaz Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d

2. A program that offers: l Entrepreneurial training l Connection to investors l Networking l other business assistance services, primarily online. NBIA DEFINITION Virtual incubation

3. CEBT: The Virtual Incubator concept l Based on regional NETWORKING of universities, r&d institutions and firms´ associations. l Regional Administration promotes and co-finances VALUE-ADDED SERVICES to individual incubators and entrepreneurship programmes. l COMMON services, procedures and assessment. l Offering both OFF-LINE and ON-LINE services. Growing importance of telematic services. l A part of a broader REGIONAL system to support the creation of NTBFs ( ).

4. 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

5. R&D InstitutionsCEIMContracts 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

6. : 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

7. : CEBT Action OBJECTIVES: NTBF CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEUR COOPERATION SPREADING INNOVATION CULTURE OBJECTIVES: NTBF CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEUR COOPERATION SPREADING INNOVATION CULTURE CEBT INSTITUTIONS (11) EUROPEAN PROJECTS: PAXIS, Gate2Growth EUROPEAN PROJECTS: PAXIS, Gate2Growth

8. Creation of a “critical mass” UniversitiesResearch Centres - UCM- CSIC (National - UPM Research Council) - UAM- INTA (Aerospace) - UAH - URJC Employers confederation - UCIII- CEIM - UNED - UPCO Other institutions: National: CDTI (Ministry for Science and Technology; enterprise oriented) Regional: Chamber of Commerce CEBT Action : Members involved (11)

9. CEBT Services : Policy improvement, awareness and detection of ideas l Policy improvement: Studies and action plans to improve internal NTBF policies. l Awareness: Seminars to show the way to commercialize research results and how the ideas have to be presented to the Institution. l Evaluation of Ideas: Ideas are evaluated and followed- up by each Institution. l Training of promoters: International training through Gate2Growth.

10. l Training of entrepreneurs: to obtain a business plan (approx. 120h+20h of mentoring by professional consultants) and other specific courses. l Mentoring: Support to develop business plan, viability studies, etc. l IPR & Technology watch: Support by the Innovation Circles of the madri+d System, patents, etc. l Technology Transfer: Support through the IRC CEBT Services : Pre-incubation (business plan and company creation)

11. l Information and Documentation: Virtual services and assistance provided through madri+d, www.madrimasd.org/emprendedores l Coaching: Support to start of activity by experts l 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, … l Cooperation between entrepreneurs: Meetings of entrepreneurs besides each incubator,.. CEBT Services : incubation (companies created within max. 2 years)

12. 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)

13. Madrid Cambridge Stockholm Stuttgart : Learning from others´experience SPRING Network

14. 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)

15. 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:

16. PAXIS-SPRING: Tools to monitor NTBF creation support tool EFQM analysis (radial) Intellectual capital analysis Competence bearer model

17. Thank you for your attention! Contact details Eduardo Díaz Head of Unit New Technology Based Firms Promotion Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d Velázquez, 76 28001 Madrid Spain Phone: +34 91 781 65 70 E-mail: ediaz@madrimasd.org Web page: www.madrimasd.org/emprendedores