Regional Action Plans & Next Steps

1. Regional Action Plans & Next Steps Project partners: 2nd Global Forum on Business Incubation - Empowering economies through ICT-enabled innovation and entrepreneurship Hyderabad, India – November 2006

2. “The” Long road to Hyderabad: Processes, some milestones and actions! 2nd Global Forum on Business Incubation - Empowering economies through ICT-enabled innovation and entrepreneurship Hyderabad, India – November 2006

3. Key areas and Challenges 2nd Global Forum on Business Incubation - Empowering economies through ICT-enabled innovation and entrepreneurship Hyderabad, India – November 2006

4. PROCESS… Newtok members “feeding and exploring / drawing from the system” Network space… the final frontier…! Institutional and technical Support for the network: 2nd Global Forum on Business Incubation - Empowering economies through ICT-enabled innovation and entrepreneurship Hyderabad, India – November 2006

5. Previous workplan for the network region… Identification of activities to be added to the regional plan: Beneficiaries in more than one country Substantial contribution by the proponents (in kind/ cash) Identification of + tools / contents for iDISC Toolkit for the region Identification of opportunities for international collaboration (“bulletin board” type) Some Milestones… 2nd Global Forum on Business Incubation - Empowering economies through ICT-enabled innovation and entrepreneurship Hyderabad, India – November 2006

6. Examples of activities to be added to the Regional Plan… 2nd Global Forum on Business Incubation - Empowering economies through ICT-enabled innovation and entrepreneurship Hyderabad, India – November 2006

7. Tools E-Quipu, methodology for team-based incubation and B2B platform (Peru) E-waste, computer recycling toolkit (Bolivia) Software for diagnostics/monitoring of incubatees (Chile) Performance Indicators (Brazil, Ecuador, Jamaica… man!) Polling tool (Chile) Contents University curriculum on entrepreneurship (Brazil) Case studies on PPPs and fund-raising in stock market (Ecuador) Regulatory/ legal frameworks for incubation/innovation activities (all countries) Training materials (various countries) Specific contributions (products) for “regional” iDISC Toolkit 2nd Global Forum on Business Incubation - Empowering economies through ICT-enabled innovation and entrepreneurship Hyderabad, India – November 2006

8. Opportunities for International Collaboration (activities that are being/ will be carried out and can be expanded to other countries; to be added as a tool in the Red-LAC’s website) Program for incubator mentoring (Brazil) Capacity building on dynamic ventures and creation of angel networks (Chile) Study on best practices/ success cases (Chile) Articulation of commercial networks for incubatees (Brazil) Co-incubation (Chile, Colombia, Brazil) Annual report on the state of incubation (Chile) 2nd Global Forum on Business Incubation - Empowering economies through ICT-enabled innovation and entrepreneurship Hyderabad, India – November 2006

9. Action Plan… Switch files! 2nd Global Forum on Business Incubation - Empowering economies through ICT-enabled innovation and entrepreneurship Hyderabad, India – November 2006

10. Thank you… Paulo C. de Miranda – paulocm@anprotec.org.br Tel.: +55-61-3201155 Project partners: 2nd Global Forum on Business Incubation - Empowering economies through ICT-enabled innovation and entrepreneurship Hyderabad, India – November 2006

11. . . . . That’s not all “amigos”! 2nd Global Forum on Business Incubation - Empowering economies through ICT-enabled innovation and entrepreneurship Hyderabad, India – November 2006

12. Hasta la vista baby…. 3rd Global Forum on Business Incubation…? Rio de Janeiro – 2008! Project partners: 2nd Global Forum on Business Incubation - Empowering economies through ICT-enabled innovation and entrepreneurship Hyderabad, India – November 2006