1 / 10

October 5, 2004

THE UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA’S MODEL FOR SUPPORTING START-UPS. October 5, 2004. The University of Barcelona’s Model for Supporting Start-Ups. October 5, 2004. Centre d’Innovació, Fundació Bosch i Gimpera - Universitat de Barcelona. BOSCH I GIMPERA FOUNDATION.

axel-meyers
Download Presentation

October 5, 2004

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. THE UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA’S MODEL FOR SUPPORTING START-UPS October 5, 2004

  2. The University of Barcelona’s Model for Supporting Start-Ups October 5, 2004 Centre d’Innovació, Fundació Bosch i Gimpera - Universitat de Barcelona BOSCH I GIMPERA FOUNDATION • Private non-profit organisation • Established in 1983 • To facilitate the collaboration between the • university and firms and institutions • Two specialised centres: • - THE INNOVATION CENTRE • (Contracts administered: 38 million euros) • - LES HEURES CONTINUING EDUCATION • (Annual turnover: 10,8 million euros)

  3. The University of Barcelona’s Model for Supporting Start-Ups October 5, 2004 Centre d’Innovació, Fundació Bosch i Gimpera - Universitat de Barcelona THE BUSINESS CENTRE Objectives: • To turn UB research with market potential • into new science- or technology-based companies. • To offer UB researchers guidance and services • to start new companies. • To promote the entrepreneurial culture within the • university environment.

  4. The University of Barcelona’s Model for Supporting Start-Ups October 5, 2004 Centre d’Innovació, Fundació Bosch i Gimpera - Universitat de Barcelona THE BUSINESS CENTRE THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT STAGE. SERVICES OFFERED: -Project identification -Scientific evaluation of the project -Identification of the business concept -Access to seed capital

  5. The University of Barcelona’s Model for Supporting Start-Ups October 5, 2004 Centre d’Innovació, Fundació Bosch i Gimpera - Universitat de Barcelona THE BUSINESS CENTRE - THE SET–UP STAGE. SERVICES OFFERED: -Market studies -Development of the business plan -Protection of intellectual property rights and registration of patents -Training for the entrepreneurs -Selection of the management team -Access to resources: risk capital or industrial partners

  6. The University of Barcelona’s Model for Supporting Start-Ups The University of Barcelona’s Model for Supporting Start-Ups October 5, 2004 Centre d’Innovació, Fundació Bosch i Gimpera - Universitat de Barcelona Centre d’Innovació, Fundació Bosch i Gimpera - Universitat de Barcelona 7-nov.-14 • The Quasi-Enterprises programme: • Programme started in 1998 at UB. • Objective: • to help a research group to develop a professional approach to market. • to improve internal control of the financial transactions of the group. • A Quasi-Enterprise is a research group oriented to technological demand, that has acquired an additional structure - of management and promotion - that allows it to have a more fluent relation with the market.

  7. The University of Barcelona’s Model for Supporting Start-Ups The University of Barcelona’s Model for Supporting Start-Ups October 5, 2004 Centre d’Innovació, Fundació Bosch i Gimpera - Universitat de Barcelona Centre d’Innovació, Fundació Bosch i Gimpera - Universitat de Barcelona 7-nov.-14 • The Quasi-Enterprises programme: results • Year 2000: Internationalization of the programme (EU financing). Consortium with: • Techminho, Guimaraes (PORTUGAL) • Area Science Park, Trieste (ITALY) • 16 Quasi-E running. • 6 of them incorporated as spin-off companies. • Research areas: • Computational linguistics. • Applied Economy studies. • Museology, architecture. • Biotechnology. • Chemistry: organic, electrochemistry, analysis. • Pharmacy: formulation services, nutritional services

  8. The University of Barcelona’s Model for Supporting Start-Ups October 5, 2004 Centre d’Innovació, Fundació Bosch i Gimpera - Universitat de Barcelona • Technological Trampolines Programme: description • Programme created in 2001 by CIDEM (Catalan government) and most of the Universities in Catalonia. • OBJECTIVE: To promote entrepreneurship in technologically innovative projects. • How does it work? • Each University creates a Technological Trampoline to • Evaluate ideas. • Assist entrepreneurs to develop their projects. • Incubate new projects financed by the programme. • CIDEM evaluates projects coming from Universities and finances up to 60% of the project (max. € 100,000). • Entrepreneurs must finance 40% of the project.

  9. The University of Barcelona’s Model for Supporting Start-Ups October 5, 2004 Centre d’Innovació, Fundació Bosch i Gimpera - Universitat de Barcelona • Results at UB: • 16 companies already incorporated • 4 companies have venture capital investment • Some companies negotiating next rounds of financing • 4 companies have industrial partners • 6 companies at the Bioincubator

  10. The University of Barcelona’s Model for Supporting Start-Ups October 5, 2004 Centre d’Innovació, Fundació Bosch i Gimpera - Universitat de Barcelona For more information: Ms. Carme Verdaguer Director of the Business Centre Area Bosch i Gimpera Foundation University of Barcelona Baldiri Reixac, 4-6- Torre D 08028 Barcelona Tel.: +34 93 448 94 30 Fax: +34 93 448 94 34 E-mail: cverdaguer@fbg.ub.es www.fbg.ub.es

More Related